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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.

Cormac McCarthy

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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Hairs Lonely Morning Remember Savage Sleep Storm
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
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Bond Community Deep Grief Oneself Sorrow
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Best Identity Live Way
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Joy Road Vehicle
There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Count Life Morning Thinking Wake Up Yourself
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Lose Pain Save Word
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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Control Government People Power Right Rule Yourself
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
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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Heart Kill Man Secret Talk Woman
There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Defeat Difference Inspirational Motivational Quit
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Abandonment Decision Life Man Order

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