Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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