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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
She aint worth it. None of em are. He didnt answer for a while. Then he said: Yes they are. When
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
When the truck finally pulled out and they saw him still standing they offered their bundles for him to sit on and he did so and he nodded and dozed to the hum of the tires on the blacktop and the rain stopped and the night cleared and the moon that was already risen raced among the high wires by the highway side like a single silver music note burning in the constant and lavish dark and the passing fields were rich from the rain with the smell of earth and grain and peppers and the sometime smell of horses.
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. You understand what I'm sayin?
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing ground-shudder watching it till it was gone. Then
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be. The
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
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. By
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
beneath a deep
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.
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Cormac McCarthy _ All The Pretty Horses
You think you can believe in heaven if you dont believe in hell? I guess you can believe what you want to. Rawlins
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