Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnd 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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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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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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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