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"Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you."
"I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble."
"Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable."
"What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return."
"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."
"The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand."
"I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all."
"At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned"
"Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire."
"The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again."
"Each the others world entire."
"So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall."
"I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West."
"He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it."
"Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent."
"You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest."
"We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did."
"People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world."
"I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery."
"I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change."
