Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
("All the Pretty Horses")
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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 finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.Cormac McCarthy
There is no later. This is later.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Your kinda weirded out, ain't ya?
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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