Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
There is no later. This is later.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.
I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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