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Cormac McCarthy

"They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Stars Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.”
“We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe.”

Source : "Provocative Columns: A Liberal Rabbi Reflects on Beliefs, Israel & American Politics". Book by Bruce Warshal, 2009.
“To remain standing one often has to fall.”
“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is, by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl when they see that.”
“I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.”
“All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.”
“There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”
“America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.”

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