When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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