The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMen of God and men of war have strange affinities.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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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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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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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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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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