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One 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…
- If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
- The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
- If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be…
- Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at…
- This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest…
- When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
- 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…
- No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people…
- What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one…
- For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
- People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
- He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight…
- Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is…
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle