There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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