Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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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.
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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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