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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBy day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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