Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.
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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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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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How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.
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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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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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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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...he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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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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This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?
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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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Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.
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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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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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A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
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It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong. (p.71)
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It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.