Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLong before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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There 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.
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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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