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Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.
- OS Hillman
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
- Oscar Wilde
I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me
- Oscar Wilde
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
- Cormac McCarthy
The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
- Cormac McCarthy
I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
- Cormac McCarthy
He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.
- Cormac McCarthy
Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
- Cormac McCarthy
They sat contemplating towns to come and the poor fanfare of trumpet and drum and the crude boards upon which their destinies were inscribed for these people were no less bound and indentured and they watched like the prefiguration of their own ends the carbonized skulls of their enemies incandescing before them bright as blood among the coals.
- Cormac McCarthy
It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said.
- Cormac McCarthy
Three weeks ago I was a law abidin citizen. Workin a nine to five job. Eight to four, anyways. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
- Cormac McCarthy