Dead people Quote by Raymond Carver

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave this astonishing place that gives shelter to dead people. This graveyard. And go. Walking first on one rail and then the other.” quote by Raymond Carver — Download Open image

““All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave this astonishing place that gives shelter to dead people. This graveyard. And go. Walking first on one rail and then the other.””

Raymond Carver

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