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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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