The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMy 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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 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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Ever step you take is forever.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time 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 only my heart were stone.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There is no later. This is later.
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