Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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 later. This is later.
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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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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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 things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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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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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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