There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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 closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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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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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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