He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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