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.
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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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There is no later. This is later.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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