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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

Cormac McCarthy

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
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
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
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Best Identity Live Way
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
There is no later. This is later.
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Deep Future One Liner Time
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
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
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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Reason Road Travel Understand
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Day Earth Grief Mom Sun
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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Believe Civilization Existence Fools Myself Pretend See
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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God Man Strange War
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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Forever Philosophy Start Step Thinking Yourself
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

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