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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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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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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 God and we are his prophets.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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