You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you 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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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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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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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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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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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 such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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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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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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