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"What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle."
"And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun."
"Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground."
"Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different."
"You are either born a writer or you are not."
"Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones."
"Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?"
"When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different."
"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
"If you break little promises, you'll break big ones."
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
"People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same."
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge"
"One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you."
"Ever step you take is forever."
"The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops."
"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."
"And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up."
"Men of God and men of war have strange affinities."
"People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways."