It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The 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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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 forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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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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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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