There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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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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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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