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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories

"An extraordinary book on sex and civilization....An important contribution to contemporary morality."―Newsweek The heart of man's dilemma, according to Rollo May, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and

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Raymond Carver (2)

“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine eve…”

— Raymond Carver, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Intimacy, breakup, Past Love

“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window — maybe rearrange all the furniture.”

— Raymond Carver, amazon.com

Tagged: what anxiety feels like, Literature, anxiety in literature, Panic, nervousness