There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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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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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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