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 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 only my heart were stone.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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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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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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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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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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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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