Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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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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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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