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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNotions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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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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