One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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 closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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