Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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