The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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