Cormac McCarthy Quotes
What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
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As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
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Naroin stopped, shook her head. 'Take it from an experienced hand, child. It’s no good blamin’ yourself for what you couldn’t prevent. Not so long as you tried.'Maia’s lips pressed together. That was exactly what she had been telling herself. From the look in Naroin’s eyes, it didn’t get much more believable as you got older.
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
