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You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to… — John Williams

Novel · Western fiction · Western

You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done.

John Williams
Butcher's Crossing · 1960
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Living inauthenticallyLying to oneselfRegret
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Western fictionWestern
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Novel
Time
1960
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John Williams
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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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