The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
-
-
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Ever step you take is forever.
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY