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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYOne of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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 wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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There is no later. This is later.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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