The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThey 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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