Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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People 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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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