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• The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

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  Dream, Medicine, Fields

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• Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

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  California, Way To Live, Way

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.233, Vintage

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• Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

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  Want

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.180, Pan Macmillan

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• You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

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  Real, Fire, Know How

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• Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

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  Men, Hands, White

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.241, Vintage

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• What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

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  Men, Enemy, Together

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

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  Stars, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

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  Life, Believe, People

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.142, Vintage

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• When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

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  Dies, Ifs

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.180, Pan Macmillan

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• I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

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  Running

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no greater monster than reason.

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  Monsters, All The Pretty Horses, Reason

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.141, Pan Macmillan

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• How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

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  Men, Order, Doe

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• They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

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  Journey, Way, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.315, Vintage

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• A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but 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, Heart, Men

  "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West". Book by Cormac McCarthy, Chapter II, 1985.

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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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• To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

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  God

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.429, Pan Macmillan

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• He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

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  Teaching, May, Teaching English

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• You are either born a writer or you are not.

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  Born

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• Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

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  Memories, Men, Hatred

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

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• I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

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  Darkness, Matter, No Matter What

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

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  Dream, Reality, World

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

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• It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

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  Sight, Hearing, Quitting

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• The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

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  Past, Hands, World

  Cormac McCarthy (1999). “Cities of the plain”, Vintage

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• The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

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  Men, Order, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

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  Hands, Color, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.146, Pan Macmillan

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