Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHYRemember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever step you take is forever.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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She 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.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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If only my heart were stone.
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I 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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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