He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYDeep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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