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
And they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For
Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home.People in hell want ice water.
You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void...
Where you've nothing else, construct ceremonies out of the air, and breathe upon them.
Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacit...
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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 rai...
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled throu...
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...
What you wants with these goats anyway? Little or nothin. Good fresh milk. God’s best cheese. You have any other animals? said Suttree. Dog or anything? No. Just goats. I think a feller gets started w...
What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but sharing of enemies.
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
Those whom life does not cure death will. 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.
Those who travel desert places do indeed meet with creatures surpassing all description.
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.
They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good.
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...