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.
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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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