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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Cormac McCarthy

She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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Heart Kill Man Secret Talk Woman
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Count Life Morning Thinking Wake Up Yourself
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Intelligence Man Myself Normal Stupidity Thinking
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Human Misery Worst
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking Yourself
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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End Journey Silence Talk Togetherness Travel
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Joy Road Vehicle
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Expectation Thinking Trouble
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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Important Life Live Luck Man People Work
There is no later. This is later.
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Deep Future One Liner Time
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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Beyond Death Different Man Sleep Sun Walk World
I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Bad Goodness Growth Happiness People Thinking Time Yourself
All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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Return Time Try Yourself
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Age Death Old Sadness Yourself

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

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