Cormac McCarthy Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Mean, Doors

• Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Giving Up, World

• He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

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  Giving, Lovers, Give Me

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

• The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Ideas, Soul

  "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" by Richard B. Woodward, archive.nytimes.com. April 19, 1992.

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

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Guy

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

• Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Work, Giving, Next

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