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.
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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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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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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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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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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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