You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHYPeople 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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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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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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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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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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Long 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.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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