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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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