And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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If only my heart were stone.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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