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"Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do."
"They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)"
"He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man."
"Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind."
"You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies."
"Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?"
"... every little boy thinks he invented sin."
"When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to."
"'He's got a can up there,' Richard said."
"Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother."
"The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain."
"Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself."
"There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort."
"I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down."
"There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward."
"I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical"
"It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane."
"A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson"
"This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal."
"The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite."