Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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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.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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