One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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