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“Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”
― Outer Dark
― Outer Dark
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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