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SAW a lot of people come and go over half a lifetime on the Range. Some of them came and went, some of them came and died, and the ones that did neither weren’t often the kind you wanted around. First time you lose a friend, feels like you’ll never be the same again. Lose enough of them, you realise that you aren’t the same, but you’ve forgotten how to be whatever it was you were before.
“When you realise the mountain you’ve been climbing is just a heap of shit, the fall doesn’t feel so far.”
“People are sheep,” I said. “They do as you tell them. They believe what they want to, or whatever frightens them the most. If they don’t like it, they reject it or they ignore it. It’s natural. Can’t blame them for it. Can’t tell them they’re stupid, either. They don’t understand that they’re sheep. How could they? The sheep don’t realise the shepherd is smarter than they are.”
It is the way of the world that good people try to do the right thing for the wrong people’s wrong reasons.
The great mistake of man is to believe that other men can live up to the ideals that we set them.
