Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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 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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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