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.
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.
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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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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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 no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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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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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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of 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 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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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
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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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