Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.
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Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
