Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYSomewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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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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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’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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