The breath of God was his yet, though it pass from man to man through all of time.
The faintly lit hatchway lay in the dark of the yard like a grave yawning at judgement day in some old apocalyptic painting.
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which doe...
The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.
The hardest lesson in the world:Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
The judge sat that animal bareback like an indian and rode with his grip and his rifle perched on the withers and he looked about him with the greatest satisfaction in the world, as if everything had...
The man's labor that did the work is in the work. You can't make it go away. Even if it's paid for it's still there. If ownership lies in the benefit to a man then the mason owns all the work he does...
The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The
Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
There are other good guys. You said so. Yes.So where are they? They're hiding. Who are they hiding from? From each other.
There were few nights lying in the dark that he did not envy the dead.
They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a falle...
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. Th...
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard,
They were all day among the dunes and in the evening coming down from the last low sandhills to the plain below among catclaw and crucifixion thorn they were a parched and haggard lot man and beast. H...
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 cer...
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
Things will be better when everybody's gone.They will?Sure they will.Better for who?Everybody.
When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some othe...
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