The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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