Cormac McCarthy quotes - page 3

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. (Cormac McCarthy)
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. View quote
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. View quote
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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. View quote
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. View quote
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse. View quote
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? View quote
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. (Cormac McCarthy)
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything. View quote
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. View quote
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If only my heart were stone. View quote
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. View quote
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. (Cormac McCarthy)
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto. View quote
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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. View quote
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. View quote
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There is no God and we are his prophets. View quote
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