Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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