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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time 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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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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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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.
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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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