If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWords pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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 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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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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