Ever step you take is forever.
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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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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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