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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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