Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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