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 MCCARTHYShe said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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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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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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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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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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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If only my heart were stone.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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