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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Cormac McCarthy

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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Blame God Grow Up Himself Life Myself Old Opinion Thinking Way
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Day Earth Grief Mom Sun
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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Believe Myself
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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Deep Existence Hide Knowledge Man
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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Earth Goodness Luck Walk
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
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Death Yourself
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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Dreams Himself Night Return Wake Up World
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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Carry Fire Inspirational Motivational Reality See Yourself
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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God Human Patience Rude See Sun
I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Bad Goodness Growth Happiness People Thinking Time Yourself
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
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
He 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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Deep Empty God Goodness Heart Life Reality Stand Start Truth Young
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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Beyond Death Different Man Sleep Sun Walk World

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