David Glines

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“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be?
It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: destroy, living, world

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“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: contemplation, fix, horror, protected, world

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“Nowhere like nothing requires for its affirmation a witness which it cannot supply by its own definition.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: nothing, nowhere, witness

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“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

tags: idiots

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“Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.”
― Jesse Ball

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