Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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