He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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