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.
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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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