Cormac McCarthy quotes - page 6

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world. (Cormac McCarthy)
If you break little promises, you'll break big ones. View quote
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The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. View quote
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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. View quote
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. View quote
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Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? View quote
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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. View quote
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Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. View quote
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself? View quote
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. View quote
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day. (Cormac McCarthy)
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. View quote
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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing. View quote
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The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again. View quote
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. View quote
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. View quote
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I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home. View quote
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you. View quote
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont 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. View quote
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you. View quote
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What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay. (Cormac McCarthy)
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. View quote
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. View quote
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