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.
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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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 world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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