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.
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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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