He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
CORMAC MCCARTHYDeep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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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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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.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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