If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLong before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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