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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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