The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLife is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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