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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

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  All The Pretty Horses, Ends, Sentiments

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

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  Perspective, Sometimes, Closeness

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.295, Vintage

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• He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

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  Heart, Squares, Cafes

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

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  Forever, Going Away, Steps

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Guy

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

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• My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

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  Writing, Perfect Days, Heaven

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• She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.

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  Heart, Men, Secret

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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• Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

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  Courage, Morning, Betrayal

  Cormac McCarthy (1992). “All the Pretty Horses”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

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  Mother, Mountain, Lambs

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.69, 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 rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

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  Fear, Rain, Believe

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

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  Love, God, Flames

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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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• The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.

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  Men, Fire, Flames

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.

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  Home, Back Home, Different

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• If only my heart were stone.

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  Heart, Stones, My Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

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  Winning, Men, Scared

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• Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

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  Atheist, Heart, Atheism

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.266, Pan Macmillan

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• A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.

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  Dream, Might

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.274, Pan Macmillan

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• He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

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  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

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  Memories, Life Is

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.421, Pan Macmillan

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• It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

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  Women, Wife, Hell

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• It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

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  Memories, Heart, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow
  composed of the helpless and the impotent.

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  Government, Law, Missing

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

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  Suicide, Years, Seems

  "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen, www.wsj.com. November 20, 2009.

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