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- He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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He’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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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.
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If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
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Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNotions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYDo you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMen of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHYOne of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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.
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.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhen you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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 MCCARTHYAnd 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.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMy perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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