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“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: truths

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#2

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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#3

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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#4

“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

tags: blindsight, humanity, nature

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#5

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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#6

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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#7

“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

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#8

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence

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#9

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: bravery, perseverance

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#10

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#11

“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: father, god, son

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#12

“Each moment and everywhere, civilizations rise and fall, much as the stars are born and die.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie

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#13

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

tags: monsters, people, perception

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#14

“He told himself: Hope is a gateway drug, don't do it.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

tags: hope

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#15

“But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

tags: faith, love

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#16

“Well, I do what I say. Which is why I don’t say much.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

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#17

“But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: giftedness, loving

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#18

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#19

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#20

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#21

“I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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#22

“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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#23

“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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#24

“The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

tags: emptiness

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