One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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 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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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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I 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.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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