You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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 there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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