Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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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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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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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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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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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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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