Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
There is no later. This is later.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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