Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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There is no later. This is later.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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