He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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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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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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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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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