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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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 world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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