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A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.

— Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

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“Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now."

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.”

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

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