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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBest way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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.
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