Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before 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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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