If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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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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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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