He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHYActs have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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