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What we have is divine. It's beautiful and good and right. I feel it..." He presses his his hand to his chest, over his heart. "I feel it all the time. You're in here, part of me. You're what I go to bed thinking about and what I wake up to in the morning.


Cynthia Hand


#love #tucker-avery #beauty

After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship under the soon-to-be-famous John Gardner, the first "real writer" he had ever met. "He offered me the key to his office," Carver recalled in his preface to Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist (1983). "I see that gift now as a turning point." In addition, Gardner gave his student "close, line-by-line criticism" and taught him a set of values that was "not negotiable." Among these values were convictions that Carver held until his death. Like Gardner, whose On Moral Fiction (1978) decried the "nihilism" of postmodern formalism, Carver maintained that great literature is life-connected, life-affirming, and life-changing. "In the best fiction," he wrote "the central character, the hero or heroine, is also the ‘moved’ character, the one to whom something happens in the story that makes a difference. Something happens that changes the way that character looks at himself and hence the world." Through the 1960s and 1970s he steered wide of the metafictional "funhouse" erected by Barth, Barthelme and Company, concentrating instead on what he called "those basics of old-fashioned storytelling: plot, character, and action." Like Gardner and Chekhov, Carver declared himself a humanist. "Art is not self-expression," he insisted, "it’s communication.


William L. Stull


#carver #chekhov #chico-state #john-gardner #paradise

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice. [...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims. [...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.


Mark L. Shurtleff


#death #death-penalty #executions #firing-squads #god

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.


Lisa Gardner


#life #lisa-gardner #quotes #life

Clara: "I won't hurt you." Be not afraid. His eyes flashed with anger like i've come right out and called him chicken.


Cynthia Hand


#tucker-avery #anger

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.


Ava Gardner


#flaws #forgiveness #human-frailties #forgiveness

He will always be my Sir Galahad.


Ava Gardner


#clark-gable #friendship #friendship

Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here.


Ava Gardner


#fighting #frank-sinatra #humor #humor

Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.


Ava Gardner


#critics #humor #humor

I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.


Cynthia Hand


#love #tucker-avery #love