Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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 only my heart were stone.
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