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.
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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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’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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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