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.
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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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