I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnd 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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