The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHYPeople were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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