It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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