Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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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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