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“I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.”
― The Fires of Heaven
― The Fires of Heaven
“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his own doing.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.”
― All the Pretty Horses
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.”
― All the Pretty Horses
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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