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World Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- 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…
- The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.…
- So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from…
- Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
- 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…
- 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 walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless…
- 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…
- On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
- The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
- Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
- Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
- Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani