One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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 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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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’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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