What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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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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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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