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Known Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had…
- Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of…
- He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So…
- What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
- In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,…
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
- I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in…
- 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…
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- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch