The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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Acts 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.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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