There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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 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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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.
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