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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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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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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 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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There is no later. This is later.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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