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.
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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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