What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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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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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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