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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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 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 world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no later. This is later.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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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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