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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI 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.
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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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