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.
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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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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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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of 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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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