Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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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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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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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