There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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