Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Cormac McCarthy
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  3. Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. - Paul Celan

  4. To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal. - M. Clifford

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  1. You have my whole heart. You always did.

  2. People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

  3. He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The crushing...

  4. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

  5. Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

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