Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
CORMAC MCCARTHY
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy 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.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy 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.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy Ever step you take is forever.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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