Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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The hour that followed was a long hour.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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Jackson, pistols drawn, lurched into the street vowing to shoot the ass off Jesus Christ, the longlegged white son of a bitch.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
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Whatever exists, he the judge said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
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How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.
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When you encounter certain things in the world, the evidence for certain things, you realize that you have come upon somethin that you may very well not be equal to and I think that this is one of them things. When you've said that it's real and not just in your head I'm not all that sure what it is you have said.
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...he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
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I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.
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...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
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Where is your country? he said.I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.
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Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.
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Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
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Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.