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 MCCARTHYThere is no later. This is later.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever step you take is forever.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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