Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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 God and we are his prophets.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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