If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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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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