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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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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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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 trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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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