The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAll the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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There is no later. This is later.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on 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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before 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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