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61 " You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different. "
― Cormac McCarthy , Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
62 " But have you not met people in your dreams you never saw before? In dreams or out?Sure.And who were they? I dont know. Dream people. "
63 " I only know that every act which has no heart will be found out in the end. "
64 " Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now? "
65 " There’s a lot of things look better at a distance "
66 " Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one. "
67 " If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted. "
68 " know 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. "
69 " I’ve heard of some that was supposed to be better and I’m sure there were some better. I just never did see any of em. "
70 " Traiga un vino para mi amigo. "
71 " every act which has no heart will be found out in the end. Every gesture. "
72 " Put that in your pocket and dont tell nobody where you got it. I dont believe I can do that. Go on. No sir. The man’s face darkened. He stood holding out the bill. Then he stuck it in the pocket of his shirt. It wouldnt be no skin off your ass. John Grady didnt answer. The man turned and spat again. "
73 " You didnt slack up on him just the littlest bit? No. I dont believe in it. "
74 " He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his own doing. "
75 " It just sounds like superstition to me.And what is that?Superstition?Yes.Well. I guess it's when you believe in things that dont exist.Such as tomorrow? Or yesterday?Such as the dreams of somebody you dreamt. Yesterday was here and tomorrow's comin. "
76 " Let’s go. You can sleep in the winter. "
77 " Daybreak to backbreak for a godgiven dollar, said Billy. I love this life. You love this life, son? I love this life. You do love this life dont you? Cause by god I love it. Just love it. "
78 " Ci sono un sacco di cose che sembrano più belle, viste da lontano.Si?Almeno così la penso io.E hai ragione. La vita passata, per esempio.Già. E magari anche la vita non ancora vissuta. "
79 " Well. Nothin’s forever. Some things are. Yeah. Some things are. "
80 " There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place. "