There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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