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A guy needs somebody—to be near him.” He whined, “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya,” he cried, “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”
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“What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.”
― All The Pretty Horses
― All The Pretty Horses
“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
“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
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