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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. (Cormac McCarthy)
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it. View quote
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around. View quote
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. View quote
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Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen. View quote
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It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it. View quote
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Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin? View quote
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It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable. View quote
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it. View quote
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Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. View quote
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. (Cormac McCarthy)
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily. View quote
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Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing. View quote
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I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. View quote
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable. View quote
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What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle. View quote
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It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight. View quote
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I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart. View quote
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Scared money can't win and a worried man can't love. View quote
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. View quote
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I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. (Cormac McCarthy)
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone. View quote
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You are either born a writer or you are not. View quote
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Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones. View quote
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change. View quote
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