Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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 closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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