The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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There is no later. This is later.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from 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 world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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