You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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