What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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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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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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