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My Lord, why do you drive me hence? When your greatgrandfather King Fernando took Seville he drove me out and I went to live at Jerez, but when your grandfather Alfonso took Jerez he drove me out and I went to live at Tarifa, thinking that
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“But what will follow? Just this apathy, this dead flatness? Will there come a time when I no longer ask why the world is like a mean street, because I shall take the squalor as normal?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“But it will happen anyhow. I only wish I’d lived a more human life than I did. But it happened the way it happened, and so there’s no more to say.’ ‘I wish I could believe,’ Estelle said, ‘that there will be no sorrow in the universe I make.’ ‘Then create nothing, my dear,’ Gifford Bonner said. ‘Stay here. Creation means sorrow, always and always.’ ‘And joy,’ Estelle said. ‘Well, yes. There’s that.”
― Cities in Flight
― Cities in Flight
“I thought I’d changed and grown into someone else. And I wasn’t wrong, but I wasn’t right either.”
― Leviathan Falls
― Leviathan Falls
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. You believe that? I dont know. Believe that.”
― Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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