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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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 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.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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