Ever step you take is forever.
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 he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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