Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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If only my heart were stone.
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