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“We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity to another, but there is a pattern there if you know where to look.It's amazing how when one war...”
“If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!”
“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climat...”
“Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what aint trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl w...”
“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still...”
“Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.”
“No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.”
“But wasnt time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.”
“I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but aint no trouble of his what aint trouble of mine, too.”
“Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere.”
“Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.”
“And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths couldve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries ou...”
“Maybe Id lost something. Maybe Id lost a lotmore, even, than I could sufferbut I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasnt no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.”
“But tell you true, I honestly didnt think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the worlds full of them.”
“In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being. You can see great human beings surface only when the society is real...”
“wasnt no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
“I was the luckiest girl. Dont you think because I didnt have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasnt no place Id rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable rock...”
“Aint no good ever comes of it, if you aint steering yourself.”
“Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.”
“Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
