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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYLife 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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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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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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