Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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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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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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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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