He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Ever step you take is forever.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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