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#1

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#2

“The point is there ain't no point.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

tags: nihilism

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#3

“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#4

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: intelligence

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#5

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence

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#6

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion

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#7

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life

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#8

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#9

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

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#10

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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#11

“I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: life, opportunism, truth, values

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#12

“She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: sorrow

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#13

“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.”
― Cormac McCarthy

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#14

“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”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

tags: mortality

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#15

“I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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#16

“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]”
― Cormac McCarthy

tags: authorship, creation, creative-process, driving-forces, hardship, pain, writing

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#17

“She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#18

“The freedom of birds is an insult to me.”
― Cormac McCarthy

tags: birds, freedom, insult

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#19

“Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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#20

“This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

tags: craziness, perspective

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#21

“His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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#22

“He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

tags: belief, forgiveness, god, religion

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#23

“White pussy is nothin but trouble.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

tags: sex, white-people, women

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#24

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
― Samuel Beckett

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