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- Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is…
- I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place…
- If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures…
- All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just…
- You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
- A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one…
- For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
- He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort…
- It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what…
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
- If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained…
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
- What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
- In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of…
- The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the…
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