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Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I…

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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether…
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war…
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He…
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine…

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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. — Jean Anouilh
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. — Calvin Seerveld
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. — William Hazlitt
Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell… — Cormac McCarthy
Laughter is the second best medicine. Setting things on fire is first. — Green Monk

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