What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMen of God and men of war have strange affinities.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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