There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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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’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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If only my heart were stone.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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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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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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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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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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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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