@DylanoA4 hardest quote of all time goes to

@SteveMoraco He has so many contenders

@DylanoA4 I haven’t read any of his books. Where would you suggest I start?

@spikeballchris For me, Blood Meridian

@DylanoA4 The best

@gckaloudis Immortal

@DylanoA4 Got this book for my dad a few Christmas ago. Time to take it back!

@finalboyo GRAB IT

@DylanoA4 in the veins

@DylanoA4 Think this and Blood Meridian really changed my life

@DylanoA4 The formidable know the valleys are necessary to enjoy the peaks.

@DylanoA4 Hope endures, fear fades; in a fateful tryst, your path is made clear.

@DylanoA4 Unpopular opinion but I feel like his mannered punctuation - or lack thereof - really took away from his work and decreased his readability and wider appeal. It seems like a pointless stand to have made, even if it does make his work more distinctive and “modern”…I understand he

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@DylanoA4 Many people prefer to institutionalize themselves, rather than go through the Shawshank shit pipe and take the highway to Zihuatanejo. P.S.: If you know, you know.

@DylanoA4 This is what separates the elites and proles

@DylanoA4 @zachpogrob The nightmares are making the dreams feel worth it

@DylanoA4 War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

@DylanoA4 I like this one from Stella Marris: “That I havent wound up chained to a cellar wall or burned at the stake is not a testament to our ascending civility but to our ascending skepticism. If we still believed in witches we'd still be burning them.”

@DylanoA4 My personal favorite is “Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.” All the Pretty Horses

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@DylanoA4 One of those lines that stops you cold. A forced reflection, almost slapping one’s soul.

@DylanoA4 OK. That's deep!!

@DylanoA4 One of the weirdest yet richest books I’ve ever read. I don’t think a book has moved me as much since I read that.

@DylanoA4 @zachpogrob It’s all about priorities Get in your game and never stop

@DylanoA4 What nightmares did this guy even have be real

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@DylanoA4 Indeed 👊🏻

@DylanoA4 One of my favorite things ever written is in that book, where Western has an extremely affirming conversation with a trans friend and as she leaves everyone is in awe of her. Despite being agnostic, he thinks "God's love is in the strangest places. Don't look away." I teared up.

@DylanoA4 I see influences of Nietzsche in McCarthy’s work.