Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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 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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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