They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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