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.
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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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