But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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There is no later. This is later.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before 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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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