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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLong 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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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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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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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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