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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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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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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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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