There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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