You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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If only my heart were stone.
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