You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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And 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.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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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.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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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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