What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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There is no later. This is later.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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