Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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