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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Cormac McCarthy

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Act End Oneself Talk
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Darkness Dreams Fire Myself Wake Up
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Best Gratitude Kind Luck Myself Need Thankful Yourself
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Empty God Goodness Heart Life Reality Stand Start Truth Young
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Human Misery Worst
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Return Time Try Yourself
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Beyond Bitter Carry Curse Death Live Memories Remember
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blame God Grow Up Himself Life Myself Old Opinion Thinking Way
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Harsh Reality Rude Selection World
There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Man Vulnerable World
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Lose Pain Save Word

He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

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