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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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 can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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