Ron Courter
https://www.goodreads.com/vanncrowe
Better a thief than a corpse, yes, but better a thief than a beggar as well. The world finds it harder to say no to a thief.
“Sometimes a guy’s past is like a stone around his neck that drags him so far down in the dark, he’ll never see light again if he doesn’t find a moment to cut it loose.”
― Noir
― Noir
“That’s the problem with being human. We have brains capable of figuring out the universe to a thousand decimal places, we can build machines as tall as mountains or as tiny as specks of dust, we can prise open atoms like walnuts, we can calculate the weights of distant stars, manipulate nature, ride on super-sophisticated fireworks out beyond the atmosphere, we could blow up our own planet in the time it takes to blow your nose; there’s practically nothing we can’t do, except choose our relatives. Everything else: no bother, piece of cake. But the one thing that’d do more to alleviate stress and grief and give us a head start in the pursuit of happiness is entirely beyond us, further than the Andromeda galaxy, more elusive than the Higgs-Boson. No wonder there isn’t a Nobel prize for putting up with your family. They wouldn’t be able to find anyone to give it to.”
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“There’s plenty of time and a million different ways to be an asshole. Don’t feel you got to get them all done at once.”
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“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it.”
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“Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.”
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