Ever step you take is forever.
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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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