Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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