You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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