The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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