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.
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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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