It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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’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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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