I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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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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 can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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