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You 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.

Cormac McCarthy

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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Boy Fragile Issues Light Night Old Philosophy Reveal Time Trouble
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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Blame God Grow Up Himself Life Myself Old Opinion Thinking Way
If only my heart were stone.
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Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Lose Pain Save Word
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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Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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Hairs Lonely Morning Remember Savage Sleep Storm
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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Future People Preparation Ready Time
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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Earth Goodness Luck Walk
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Death Yourself
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Day Earth Grief Mom Sun
There is no later. This is later.
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Deep Future One Liner Time
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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Endurance Gift Himself Misfortune Strength
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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Bad Goodness Growth Happiness People Thinking Time Yourself
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
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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Important Life Live Luck Man People Work
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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Believe Blood Fools Greedy History Love Repeat Save True
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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Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking Yourself
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Man Vulnerable World
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Motivational Wait Wasted Time World
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Destruction Fragile Love Myself Thinking
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Deep Escape Leaving Stay
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Intelligence Man Myself Normal Stupidity Thinking
There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Enemy Food Man Share Togetherness
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Human Misery Worst

You 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.

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You 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.

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