Cormac McCarthy Quotes - Page 15

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• It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.

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  Strong, Community, Want

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.124, Vintage

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• Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

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  Lasts, Left

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.179, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

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  Long, Littles, Sat

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.874, Pan Macmillan

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• He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

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  Book, Reality, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.637, Pan Macmillan

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• And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.

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  Dream, Color, Dawn

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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