If only my heart were stone.
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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Acts 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.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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There is no later. This is later.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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