Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWords pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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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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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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