Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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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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