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    Cormac McCarthy
    “He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: father, god, son
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    “Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
    tags: california, foreigners, home, settling, strangers
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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  • #5
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western
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  • #7
    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no God and we are his prophets.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
    You forget some things, dont you?
    Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: life, memory
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  • #9
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You have my whole heart. You always did.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #10
    Cormac McCarthy
    “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #11
    Cormac McCarthy
    “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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    Cormac McCarthy
    “When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: truths
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  • #13
    Cormac McCarthy
    “If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #14
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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  • #16
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
    tags: god
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “What would you do if I died?
    If you died I would want to die too.
    So you could be with me?
    Yes. So I could be with you.
    Okay.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #18
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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  • #19
    Cormac McCarthy
    “At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
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  • #20
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy
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  • #21
    Cormac McCarthy
    “When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #22
    Cormac McCarthy
    “He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #24
    Cormac McCarthy
    “But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
    tags: tragic
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  • #25
    Cormac McCarthy
    “When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #26
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy
    tags: humor, life
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  • #27
    Cormac McCarthy
    “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: ashes, beauty, cherishing, grace, grief, hurt, pain
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  • #28
    Cormac McCarthy
    “He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: memories, reality
    148 likes

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  • #29
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited
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  • #30
    Cormac McCarthy
    “On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    108 likes



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