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.
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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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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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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If only my heart were stone.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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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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