It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLong 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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There 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.
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The 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.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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