He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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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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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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