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And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.

— Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark (1968)

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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

There's no such thing as life without bloodshed.

The world has created no living thing it does not intend to destroy.

Stella Marris (2022)

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Blood Meridian (1985)

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