"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a ...
~ Cormac McCarthy ~












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