Cormac McCarthy Quotes
He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!
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I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.
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Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.
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The wealthiest man among us is the best
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Ah, what balance is needed at
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He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not
