Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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