By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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