It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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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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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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