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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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