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Doe Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
- How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
- You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life…
- It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was…
- Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their…
- Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
- When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can…
- I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him.…
- It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing…
- Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
- The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless…
- I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I…
- It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better…
- It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
More Doe Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange