I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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 God and we are his prophets.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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