What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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