The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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 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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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If only my heart were stone.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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 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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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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