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Day Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
- 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…
- No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace…
- People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
- The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the…
- Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
- Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to…
- You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've…
- 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 and…
- Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong