Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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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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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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