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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Cormac McCarthy

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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Future People Preparation Ready Time
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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Deep Empty God Goodness Heart Life Reality Stand Start Truth Young
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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Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking Yourself
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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Control Government People Power Right Rule Yourself
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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Brief Life Live Short Slave Yourself
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Joy Road Vehicle
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
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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Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
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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Beyond Bitter Carry Curse Death Live Memories Remember
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Drive Hard Life Suicide Worth Yourself
There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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Heart Kill Man Secret Talk Woman
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
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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Endurance Gift Himself Misfortune Strength
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Bond Community Deep Grief Oneself Sorrow

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