There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If only my heart were stone.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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