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 MCCARTHYEver 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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There is no later. This is later.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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