R.S. Belcher Quotes

#1. I am the Mother's blade, the Mother's wrath ... You have poisoned her, raped her and her children. Left her to die. Now you will suffer, you will die.

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#2. Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.

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#3. Guns are like men - only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.

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#4. Death frames our joys,

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#5. I say a man that lets his religion git in the way of his drinking is a fella with his cart 'fore his horse.

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#6. A man carries his faith in him, not in some god of book or manifest destiny."

~ Jon Highfather

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#7. The white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it was all just here waiting for Him to do whatever He wanted to with it. And boy, do white people love to do stuff, jut to do it.

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#8. The knives hummed from her hand like angry hornets, straight toward her daughter's heart.

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#9. Belief has power. Getting someone else to believe what you believe has even greater power. I've always been all about the power, not so much with the following or the believing. I believe in me, that's pretty much it. Believe in someone else too much and they'll fail you or screw you, or both.

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#10. This is Golgotha: people tend to end up dead in these here parts; it's kind of a town tradition.

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#11. Belief is a wonderful and terrible thing.

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#12. -hatred is like a shotgun. It's powerful and it rips apart everything in its path-good, bad or indifferent.

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#13. We understand so little about life or its sister, death. Look at this animal. Why was it, a moment ago, alive and feeling and thinking and now it is changed and dead? Why?"
"'Cause you shot it," Jim said.

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#14. God simply is," Bick said. "Humanity embraced It. They gave It color and gender, shape and form. They put words in Its mouth. They always have, and they still do, perhaps they always will. I always experience God as a 'He,' but God is too vast to be held prisoner by language of biology.

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#15. Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?

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