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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“But in another city, another valley, another ghetto, another slum, another favela, another township, another intifada, another war, another birth, somebody is singing Redemption Song, as if the Singer wrote it for no other reason but for this sufferah to sing, shout, whisper, weep, bawl, and scream right here, right now.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road
“But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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