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 MCCARTHYAnd perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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