People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no God and we are his prophets.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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.
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