There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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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.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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