There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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 forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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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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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 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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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