The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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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.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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