"He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price."

-- Walter Hill

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“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”
“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”

Source : Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.86, Vintage
“My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.”

Source : Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.15, Baker Books
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”
“What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.”
“Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.”
“Donâ€™t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.”
“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heavenâ€™s mouth.”

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