Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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