There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYRemember 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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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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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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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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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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