“He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike. This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none. He will call upon the world itself to testify as to the truth of what are in fact but his desires. In his final incarnation he may seek to indemnify his words with blood for by now he will have discovered that words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“Out of their anterior lives they had arrived at the same understanding as their fathers before them. That movement itself is a form of property.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“I guess I shouldn’t say anything. In a way it was an almost accidental breakthrough—a whole new style of journalism which now passes for whatever Gonzo is . . . accident and desperation.”
― Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
― Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
“For the world was made new each day and it was only men’s clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“It’s not about knowin where you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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