It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnd perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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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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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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