Cormac McCarthy Quotes - Page 13

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• Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

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  Crazy, Notion

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.175, Vintage

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• When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

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  Running, Men, Years

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

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  Real, Men, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.226, Vintage

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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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• He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

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  Punishment, Comfort, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?

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  Gone, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.184, 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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• 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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• People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

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  People, Complaining, Ems

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• Each the others world entire.

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  World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.4, 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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• You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

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• He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

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  Sea, Vapor, Firsts

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• If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

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  Promise, Littles, Break

  Joe Penhall, Cormac McCarthy (2014). “The Road”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

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  Dark, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.

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  Struggle, Dark, Hands

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.286, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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