Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.
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I come up with more ideas when I'm on the road, but I don't get to finish them. I don't get to fully flush them out because I'm so busy on the road. I'm very all over the place, but I'm definitely most creative when I'm out here.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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Love alone could waken love.
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There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
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For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.
