If only my heart were stone.
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More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no later. This is later.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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