I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHYOne of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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