Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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