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.
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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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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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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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