Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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