There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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And 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.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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