The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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If only my heart were stone.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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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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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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