Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBy day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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