The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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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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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see 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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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If only my heart were stone.
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