When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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