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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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If only my heart were stone.
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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 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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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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And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
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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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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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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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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
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