Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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