Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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There is no later. This is later.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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 no God and we are his prophets.
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