Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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