Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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 step you take is forever.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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There is no later. This is later.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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