If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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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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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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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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