Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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