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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNotions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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There is no later. This is later.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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If only my heart were stone.
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