Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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