My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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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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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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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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