If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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We 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.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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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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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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