"Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate."

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Source : Raymond Carver (2001). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, Vintage

Raymond Carver

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“As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.”

Source : The New York Times, April 18, 1967.
“If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.”

Source : David Friedrich Strauss (1892). “The Life of Jesus Critically Examined”
“I think the universal theme would be love and relationships and how if you really want to live and be alive that that's proven through the amount of love you give and receive.”
“Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?”
“As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.”
“When the wine is in, the wit is out.”

Source : 'Catechism' (ed. J. Ayre, 1844) p. 375
“To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.”
“I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.”

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