Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.

Raymond Carver's Popular Quotes

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

- Raymond Carver

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

- Raymond Carver

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

- Raymond Carver

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

- Raymond Carver

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

- Raymond Carver

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

- Raymond Carver

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

- Raymond Carver

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

- Raymond Carver

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

- Raymond Carver