What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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.
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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.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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