If the rule you followed led you to this of what use was the rule?
If the rule you followed led you to this of what use was the rule?
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
Who knows what worse luck your bad luck has save you from.
But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight...
You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been.
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
He looked like he was studying something small in the grass.
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you.
He said I was bein hard on myself. Said it was a sign of old age. Tryin to set things right. I guess there's some truth to that. But it aint the whole truth. I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didn't. I said well, that's pretty cold. And he said it was no colder than what the facts called for. So that was all there was about that.
Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
I got here the same way the coin did.
People will tell you it was Vietnam brought this country to its knees. But I never believed that. It was already in bad shape. Vietnam was just the icin on the cake. We didn't have nothin to give to em to take over there. If we'd sent em without rifles I dont know as they'd of been all that much worse off. You can't go to war like that. You cant go to war without God. I dont know what is goin to happen when the next one comes. I surely dont.
I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
The point is there ain't no point.
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither.
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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