"If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life."

Source : Raymond Carver (2016). “Where I'm Calling From”, p.14, Random House

Raymond Carver

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Character Quotes

“When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.”
“Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.”
“How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.”

Source : Zane, Eileen M. Johnson, V. Anthony Rivers (2007). “Zane's Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas”, Atria Books
“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”
“It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.”
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.”

Source : "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.
“There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.”

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