You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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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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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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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