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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYActs have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever step you take is forever.
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How 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.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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