Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
There is no later. This is later.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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
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.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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.
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 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.
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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.
Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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