I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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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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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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