Where men can't live gods fare no better.
("The Road")
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They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddle legged clutching their knees and vomiting. The browsing horses jerked their heads up. It was no sound theyÆd ever heard before. In the grey twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste. A thing smirking deep in the eyes of grace itself like a gorgon in an autumn pool.Cormac McCarthy
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Those who travel desert places do indeed meet with creatures surpassing all description.
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.
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