When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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 only my heart were stone.
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