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“People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe
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“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”
― Little Fuzzy
― Little Fuzzy
“...you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“Songs were the place he took his loss and turned it into something else. Which may not have been the same as grieving, but it was something.”
― Petty: The Biography
― Petty: The Biography
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