You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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