One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
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.
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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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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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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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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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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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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