Cormac McCarthy Quotes - Page 13

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• Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

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  Men, Drink, Said

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

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  Taken, Men, Gone

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

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  Crush, Kissing, Fire

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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 Judge

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  Believe, Men, Judging

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• The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

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  Morning, Night, Long

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

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  Men, Odds, Mind

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• When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

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  Mean, Doe, Way

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• A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

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  Horse, Jobs, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

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  Horse, Men, Illusion

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the weathers of this earth. Or char these bones to coal. If you can, if you can. A blackened rag in the rain.

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  Art, Rain, Weather

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.440, Pan Macmillan

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• What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

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  Reality, Remember, Known

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

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  Boys, Mirrors, Papa

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.111, Vintage

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• He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

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  Memories, Past, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

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  War, Men, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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• Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

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  Forever, Enterprise, Doomed

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.407, Pan Macmillan

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• I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

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  Original Thought, Scent, Divinity

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• I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

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  Dies

  "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West".

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• See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

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  Children, Fire, Shirts

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids.Miserere mei, Deus ...His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.

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  Latin, Father, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.447, Pan Macmillan

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• In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

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  Song, Night, Bird

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• War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

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  War, Games, Unity

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

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  Curse, Dies

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.

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  Hurt, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.13, Vintage

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• There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

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  Rain, Moon, Gone

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

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  People, One Day, Attention

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