Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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If only my heart were stone.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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