Ever step you take is forever.
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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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