The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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 forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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’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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