"You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?"

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Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Cathedral”, p.148, Vintage

Raymond Carver

#Mistake Quotes #Looks Quotes

“For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.”
“Creativity is really the structuring of magic.”
“I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.”
“Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.”
“The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.”
“Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.”
“We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress for our heart we need these small gestures that make us feel good Tenderness is a disinterested and generous love, that does not ask anything else to be understood and appreciated.”

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