Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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