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and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
― Suttree
― Suttree
“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.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“You are either born a writer or you are not.”
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