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Life 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.

Cormac McCarthy

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Age Death Old Sadness Yourself
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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Journey Possible Reality Thinking Time Victim Way World
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
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Enemy Food Man Share Togetherness
All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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Return Time Try Yourself
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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Dreams Himself Night Return Wake Up World
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Motivational Wait Wasted Time World
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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Future People Preparation Ready 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
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Man Vulnerable World
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
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Intelligence Man Myself Normal Stupidity Thinking
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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Best Gratitude Kind Luck Myself Need Thankful Yourself
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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Blame God Grow Up Himself Life Myself Old Opinion Thinking Way
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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Gold Heaven Myself Paper Perfection Room Wasted Time

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