Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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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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• 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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• There is no later. This is later.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

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  People, Happens, Knows

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

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  War, Men, Strange

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.264, 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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• Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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• The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

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  Mother, Wind, Earth

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

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  Believe, Blood, Knowing

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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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• 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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• 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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• The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

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  Civilization, Dachau, Foolish

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

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  Memories, Men, Hatred

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

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