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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If only my heart were stone.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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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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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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