Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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