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Men Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.…
- They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
- How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
- 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.
- War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
- In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,…
- Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
- Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
- On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
- If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures…
- The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their…
- He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the…
- 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…
- There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
- If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
- He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him.…
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