Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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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