If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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.
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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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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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