Cormac McCarthy Quotes - Page 2

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• There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Differences, Quitting, Beats

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

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  Daddy, All The Pretty Horses, Used

  "All the Pretty Horses: Book 1 of The Border Trilogy".

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• The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.

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  Men, Fire, Flames

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

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  Memories, Heart, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

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  Heart, Squares, Cafes

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

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  Courage, Morning, Betrayal

  Cormac McCarthy (1992). “All the Pretty Horses”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

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  Trouble, Things To Do, Ifs

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

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  Time, Real, Healing

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.

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  Home, Back Home, Different

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• Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

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  Gone Away, Sun, Meanness

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Outer Dark”, p.192, Vintage

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• Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

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  Want

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.180, Pan Macmillan

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• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

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  Fear, Rain, Believe

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

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  Letting Go, Aggravation, Done

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• What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

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  Men, Enemy, Together

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

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  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

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  Sight, Hearing, Quitting

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• But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

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  Misery, Humans, Absolutes

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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• Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

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  Men, Hands, White

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.241, Vintage

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• My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

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  Writing, Perfect Days, Heaven

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• When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

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  Mother, Mountain, Lambs

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Boys, Men, Worry

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• Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.

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  Sadness, Yellow, Lovely

  "Child of God". Book by Cormac McCarthy, 1973.

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• The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

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  Dream, Reality, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

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  Heart, Reality, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

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  Winning, Men, Scared

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