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“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don’t know what I am. I don’t know if I am or not.”

"I like to walk slow," Po Campo said. "If I walk too fast I might miss something."

"There ain't much to miss around here," Newt said. "Just grass."

"But grass is interesting," the old man said. "It's like my serape, only it's the earth it covers. It covers everything and one day it will cover me.”

“He didn’t tell Newt all he knew. He didn’t tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness from just the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”

“For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life had suddenly turned to mud.

He took a drink and then another and then several, and, though life remained cloudy, the inside of the cloud began to be warm.”