There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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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 only my heart were stone.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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I 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.
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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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 trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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