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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.