There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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