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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Cormac McCarthy

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
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Day Earth Grief Mom Sun
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Abandonment Decision Life Man Order
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
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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Choice Decision Life Myself
Ever step you take is forever.
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Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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Journey Possible Reality Thinking Time Victim Way World
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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Children God Himself Talk Word
The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Abandonment Cry Earth Mom Nature Sound Wind
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Bond Community Deep Grief Oneself Sorrow
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
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.
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Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
People 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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Future People Preparation Ready Time

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