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

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Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.253, Vintage

Raymond Carver

#Long Quotes #Chance Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.”
“As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand”
“I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.”

Source : David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press
“Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.45, Soho Press
“A lot of people forget that their individuality is what makes them so special. Growing up, there's a lot of pressure to be normal. but normal isn't as fun as being yourself. And it's those things about you that really draw people to you.”
“The cross alone is our theology.”
“Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.”

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