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I dont 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.
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.
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The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.
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I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed 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.
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He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
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This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.
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I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.
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She aint worth it. None of em are. He didnt answer for a while. Then he said: Yes they are.
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