You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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