Cormac McCarthy Quotes
It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
Cormac McCarthy
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
D. L. Hughley
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
M.I.A.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
Vijay Sethupathi
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
Damien Fahey
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
Rachel Miner
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
Vera Farmiga
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
Charlie Haden
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I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
Nigel Dennis
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson
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When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva
Don McLean
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
Cormac McCarthy
