“Dont you see?”
he cried. “Dont you see? This whole land, the whole South, is cursed, and all of us who derive from it, whom it ever suckled, white and black both, lie under the curse? Granted that my people brought the curse onto the land: maybe for that reason their descendants alone can—not resist it, not combat it—maybe just endure and outlast it until the curse is lifted. Then your peoples’ turn will come because we have forfeited ours. But not now. Not yet. Dont you see?”
The Bear section 4 (p. 266)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
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“you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to”
“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“You can look me in my eyes and see im ready for whatever
dont kill me makes me better”
"Motovation".
The Mansion (1959)
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
Context: Or maybe married men dont even need reasons, being as they already got wives. Or maybe it's women that dont need reasons, for the simple reason that they never heard of a reason and wouldn't recognise it face to face, since they dont function from reasons but from necessities that couldn't nobody help nohow and that dont nobody but a fool man want to help in the second place, because he dont know no better; it aint women, it's men that takes ignorance seriously, getting into a skeer [scare] over something for no more reason than that they dont happen to know what it is.
V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
“If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.”
“Dont you know… I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane”