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Thought 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…
- 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…
- In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not…
- 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.…
- 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…
- He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort…
- He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for…
- Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could…
- But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was…
- 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…
- I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
- The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour