The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYAnd 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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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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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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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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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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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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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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