If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYDo you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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 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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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