Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no later. This is later.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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