What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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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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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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