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.
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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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