Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAll 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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There is no later. This is later.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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