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John’s Quotes

“Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.”
― Cormac McCarthy

tags: literary-fiction

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“courage is the bridge between our minds and our bodies.”
― George Sheehan, Running & Being: The Total Experience

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“Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

tags: ignorance, mortality, self-discovery, self-knowledge

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“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics