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 MCCARTHYWe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There is no later. This is later.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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If only my heart were stone.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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 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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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