The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYShe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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