“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
“que somos las víctimas del tiempo. En realidad la vía del mundo no es fijada en ningún lugar. Cómo sería posible? Nosotros mismos somos nuestra propia jornada. Y por eso somos el tiempo también. Somos lo mismo. Fugitivo. Inescrutable. Desapiadado.”
― 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
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