The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If only my heart were stone.
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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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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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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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