“See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Women enjoy a different history of madness. From witchcraft to hysteria we're just bad news. We know that women were condemned as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
