Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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• Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Fire

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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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• Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

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  Way To Live, Want, Way

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• There is no later. This is later.

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  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.46, Vintage

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  You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

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  Good Luck, Bad Luck, Fortune And Luck

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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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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• One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

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  Age, Realizing, Old Age

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

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  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, 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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• I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

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  Running

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

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  Fall, Rain, Unjust

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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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• I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

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  Stupid, Men, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.197, Pan Macmillan

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• You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

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  Want, Remember, Forget

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.10, Vintage

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• I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

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  Luck, Kind, Needed

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

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  Memories, Life Is

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.421, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Differences, Quitting, Beats

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

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• This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Guy

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.116, Vintage

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• Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

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  Lying, Waiting, Wish

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

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• There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

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  Gone, World, Lessons

  "The Border Trilogy".

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• The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

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  Frail, Knows, Indestructible

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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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• 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 give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Doors

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