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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth, they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadn't drunk.
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This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?
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Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.
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It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?
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The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons, coins, men. His hands moved as if he were pulling something from one fist in a series of elongations. Watch the coin, Davey, he said.
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What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.
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A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
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Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
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I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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...he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
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He said we were full of shit. But in a nice way.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
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