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From Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is…
- 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…
- So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from…
- 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…
- Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
- 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…
- He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God…
- Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
- What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
- I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place…
- From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre…
- There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking…
- The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A…
- All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just…
- 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…
- He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on…
- If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to…
- Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
- You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
- Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has…
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