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Raymond Carver
Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.”
Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall

Richard Ford
“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. It's what you're willing to give up.”
Richard Ford, Wildlife

Richard Ford
“the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.”
Richard Ford, Independence Day

Richard Ford
“And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again.”
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

Emily Dickinson
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson

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