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Time Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- 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.
- 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…
- It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in…
- He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
- Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
- The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class…
- I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place…
- They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
- Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
- All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just…
- He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience…
- I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the…
- 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 sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for…
- Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
- By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
- 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…
- He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
- It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight...
- At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
- In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals…
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