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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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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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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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If only my heart were stone.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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