Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from 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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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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