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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• And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

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  Dream, Dark, Fire

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• I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

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  Thinking, People, Unhappy

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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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'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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• 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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• There is no later. This is later.

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

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• We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

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  Journey, Reality, Thinking

  "The Crossing". Book by Cormac McCarthy, 1994.

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• How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

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  Men, Order, Doe

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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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• For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

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  Men, Hands, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.219, 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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• 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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• The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

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  Boys, Night, Light

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.24, Vintage

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• Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

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  Fate, Men, Chance

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.161, 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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• Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

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  Choices, Decision, Dumb

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Fire

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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 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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• Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

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  Morning, Hair, Black

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.185, 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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• 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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• What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

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  Toss

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.52, Vintage

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• You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

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  Real, Fire, Know How

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