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.
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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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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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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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He 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.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If only my heart were stone.
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There is no later. This is later.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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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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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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