Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Nationality:American

Walk of life:American writer

Born:20 July 1933, US

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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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Choice Decision Life
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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Human Misery Worst
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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Children God Talk Word
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Intelligence Man Normal Stupidity Thinking
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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Boy Fragile Issues Light Night Old Philosophy Reveal Time Trouble
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Education Personal World
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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Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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Darkness Dreams
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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End Oneself Talk
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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Hairs Lonely Morning Remember Savage Sleep Storm

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