One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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