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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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 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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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