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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the...more

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I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

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Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

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Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascin...more

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Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

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What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

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Go then, there are other worlds than these.

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A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed ...more

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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

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Once again there was the desert, and that only.

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...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.