By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If only my heart were stone.
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There is no later. This is later.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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