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“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
“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
“It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it?
Yes. It does.
There's a lot of things look better at a distance.
Yeah?
I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one.
Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”
― Cities of the Plain
Yes. It does.
There's a lot of things look better at a distance.
Yeah?
I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one.
Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”
― 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
“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
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