You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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