Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHYScars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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