Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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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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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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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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