Ever step you take is forever.
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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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There is no later. This is later.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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