You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf 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 God and we are his prophets.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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