Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYProbably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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 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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