"This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up"
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"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way."
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"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."
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"He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there."
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"If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?"
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"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."
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"How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too."
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"It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing."
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"When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?"
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"If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent."
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"The freedom of birds is an insult to me."
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"Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?"
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"He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not."
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"He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him."
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"The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less."
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"Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?"
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"It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all."
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"This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it."
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"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."
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"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?"
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