Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Do 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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Long 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.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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