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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYMen of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThey 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver step you take is forever.
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.
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHYProbably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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