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 MCCARTHYI’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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