One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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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’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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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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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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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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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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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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There is no later. This is later.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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