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Raymond Carver Quotes

When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But when push comes to shove, I'll always take the writing.

Raymond Carver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1938 - August 2, 1988

Topics

Fishing Writing Feel Push Guilty

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

Jim Cooper

Time People Brave Problem You Will

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

John Burroughs

Yourself People Woods You Find Will

I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

John Mackey

World Drive Better Place Millennials

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

Matt Taibbi

Failure American Dream Stupidity Play

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Jeff Bridges

Good Health Great Eating Ice Cream

I work in silence.

Sophia Amoruso

Work Silence

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.

Trevor Noah

Mom Jail She Weekends Used Get

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Mary Whitehouse

Truth Growing Up Sex Growing Nothing

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Martin O'Malley

American Left Agenda Since Least

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

Friendship Believe Friends Important

You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.

Michaela Coel

Identity Writing You Be True Find

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

Monica Cruz

Mother Woman Child Conflict Partner