Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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I 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.
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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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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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