If only my heart were stone.
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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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