Cormac McCarthy Quotes
What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I get homesick.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
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I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.
