When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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There is no later. This is later.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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