If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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