The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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