Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
There is no later. This is later.
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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.
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
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