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Said Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What…
- Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
- 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.…
- 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…
- He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift…
- 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…
- Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy…
- When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would…
- He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
- Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She…
- 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.…
- A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
- 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…
- Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
- Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was…
- We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said…
- 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…
- Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.
- 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…
- This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.…
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