Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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And 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.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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 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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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