He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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How 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.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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