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.
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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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If only my heart were stone.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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