You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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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 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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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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.
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There is no later. This is later.
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