Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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