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.
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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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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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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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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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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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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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