There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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