The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnd perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYActs 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYOne of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no later. This is later.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYScars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMen of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
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