There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHYRemember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
CORMAC MCCARTHYShe 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWe 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMen of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
CORMAC MCCARTHYProbably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI 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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