Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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People see what they want to see.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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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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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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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 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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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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Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth, they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadn't drunk.
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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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The hour that followed was a long hour.
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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 don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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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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...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.