There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLong before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLife 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYOne of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHYSomewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYProbably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHYKeep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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