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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their liv...more

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Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

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He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known t...more

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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate...more

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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Y...more

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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to ...more

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How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.

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Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.

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in that cold autistic dark.

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In the grueling light that passed for day...

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There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

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Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.