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101 " He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind "
― Cormac McCarthy , All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
102 " There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the night have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history i agreed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God- who knows all that can be known- seems powerless to change. "
103 " Buddy when he come back from up in the panhandle told me one time it quit blowin up there and all the chickens fell over. "
104 " Ella bailaba con un chico alto del rancho de San Pablo y llevaba un vestido azul y su boca era roja. Él, Rawlins y Roberto se quedaron con otros muchachos junto a la pared, contemplando a los bailarines y, más allá de ellos, a las chicas de la pared opuesta. Empezó a caminar por delante de los grupos. El aire olía a paja y sudor y una densa fragancia de colonias. Bajo la concha acústica el acordeonista luchaba con su instrumento y marcaba el ritmo con la bota contra los tablones del suelo y luego retrocedió y el trompetista se adelantó. Los ojos de ella le miraban por encima del hombro de su pareja. Llevaba los cabellos negros recogidos con una cinta azul y su nuca era pálida como la porcelana. Cuando dio otra vuelta, le sonrió. "
105 " They rode back, Rawlins leading the riderless horse by the bridlereins. Blevins was sitting in the middle of the road. He still had his hat on. Whoo, he said when he saw them. I’m drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said Rawlins. Does a bear shit in the woods? Hell yes I can ride. I was ridin when I fell off. He stood uncertainly and peered about. "
106 " The room smelled of old cigarsmoke. He leaned and turned off the little brass lamp and sat in the dark. Through the front window he could see the starlit prairie falling away to the north. The black crosses of the old telegraph poles yoked across the constellations passing east to west. "
107 " They’d put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good. The canvas rattled and flapped and the preacher’s words were lost in the wind. "
108 " like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand. "
109 " All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. "
110 " They were saddened that [Rawlins] was not coming back but they said that a man leaves much when he leaves his own country. They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise. "
111 " I despise the wintertime. I never did see what was the use in there even bein one. "
112 " He built no fire. He lay listening to the horse crop the grass at his stakerope and he listened to the wind in the emptiness and watched stars trace the arc of the hemisphere and die in the darkness at the edge of the world and as he lay there the agony in his heart was like a stake. "
113 " The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he’d been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been. "
114 " They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise. "
115 " For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. "
116 " Yet the captain inhabited another space and it was a space of his own election and outside the common world of men. "
117 " He’d bivouacked on the north side of the town "
118 " There seemed insufficient substance to him to be the object of men’s wrath. There seemed nothing about him sufficient to fuel any enterprise at all. "
119 " The night was cold and clear and the sparks rising from the fire raced hot and red among the stars. "
120 " The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. "