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Some Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are…
- My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can…
- I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him.…
- You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
- 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…
- He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and…
- Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to…
- 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.…
- Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
- Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can…
- Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the…
- It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was…
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