Raymond Carver · 181 pages
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“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“It is August.
My life is going to change. I feel it.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“You’ll be surprised to see what can collect in a mattress over the months, over the years. Every day, every night of our lives, we’re leaving little bits of ourselves, flakes of this and that, behind. Where do they go, these bits and pieces of ourselves? Right through the sheets and into the mattress, that’s where! Pillows, too. It’s all the same. He”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“You sound like a nice man,” the woman said. “Do I? Well, that’s nice of you to say.” He knew he should hang up now, but it was good to hear a voice, even his own, in the quiet room.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver
Born place: in Clatskanie, Oregon, The United States
Born date May 25, 1938
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“The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
“Libraries are packed with biographies of movie stars and politicians, most of them not capable of as much meaningful self-analysis as you’d get from a toad. We don’t need to know more about celebrities’ lives, Obadiah. What might help us, what might even save us, is knowing more about the lives of real people who’ve never made it even medium but who know where they came from and why.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from From the Corner of His Eye
“At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”
― Gavin de Becker, quote from The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.”
― Frederik Pohl, quote from Gateway
“În vremea aceasta se lăsa întunericul, iar singurătatea - singurătatea aceea înșelătoare, când omul, singur, nu este totuși singur, ci într-o dureroasă relație sufletească cu un alt om de dincolo de perete - dar îndeajuns de singur pentru ca frecarea mâinilor, încleștarea degetelor și alte manifestări să fie stupide - prin urmare, întunericul și acea falsă singurătate îmi pătrundeau în cap, mă orbeau, îmi răpeau și ultimele senzații de luciditate, mă aruncau în noapte. De câte ori noaptea nu ni se insenuează în zi! Singur, în camera aceasta, pe scăunel, în această acțiune, eram prea ireal și nu mai puteam rămâne prea mult timp aici. Procesele, care nu sunt primejdioase când le trăiești împreună cu cineva și aievea, devin insuportabil în lipsa unui partener. Singurătatea este sufocantă. Așa că, după un chin mai îndelungat, am deschis din nou ușa, am apărut în prag, ieșind din singurătate, orbecăind ca un liliac. Oprindu-mă în prag, mi-am dat seama că iar nu știu cum să încep și cum s-o abordez, era în continuare extrem de izolată și de închisă, diabolică treabă acest contur clar și precis al formei umane, această linie rece care ne particularizează - forma!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Ferdydurke
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