If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWords pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If only my heart were stone.
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