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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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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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