Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWords pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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.
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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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