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  1. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    It just sounds like superstition to me.And what is that?Superstition?Yes.Well. I guess it's when you believe in things that dont exist.Such as tomorrow? Or yesterday?Such as the dreams of somebody you dreamt. Yesterday was here and tomorrow's comin.
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  2. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    The Sabbath had passed and in the gray Monday dawn a procession of schoolchildren dressed in blue uniforms all alike were being led along the gritty walkway. The woman had stepped from the curb to take them across at the intersection when she saw the man coming up the street all dark with blood bearing in his arms the dead body of a friend. She held up her hand and the children stopped and huddled with their books at their breasts. He passed. They could not take their eyes from him. The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the woman stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world.
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  3. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming.
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  4. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    He leaned forward and began to count off on the fingers of the hand that held the cigarette: She aint American. She aint a citizen. She dont speak english. She works in a whorehouse. No, hear me out. And last but not least-he sat holding his thumb-there's a son of a bitch owns her outright that I guarangoddamntee you will kill you graveyard dead if you mess with him. Son, aint there no girls on this side of the damn river? Not like her. Well I'll bet that's the truth if you ever told it.
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  5. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home.
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  6. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    De todos modos el compartir es la ley del camino, verdad?
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  7. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    Ci sono un sacco di cose che sembrano più belle, viste da lontano. Si? Almeno così la penso io. E hai ragione. La vita passata, per esempio. Già. E magari anche la vita non ancora vissuta.
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  8. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.
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  9. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    You dont want to be the youngest. I can tell you right now. There aint no percentage in it. They
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  10. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    . . .the woman stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world.
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  11. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    Do I think you're crazy? he said. No. I dont. You've rewrote the book for crazy. If all you are is crazy then all them poor bastards in the loonybin that they're feedin under the door need to be set loose in the street.
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  12. Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain

    She patted his hand. Gnarled, ropescarred, speckled from the sun and the years of it. The ropy veins that bound them to his heart. There was map enough for men to read. There God's plenty of signs and wonders to make a landscape. To make a world.
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