“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
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“By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
― Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
― Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
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“We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
― The Illustrated Man
― The Illustrated Man
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