You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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