The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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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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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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