Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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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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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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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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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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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