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• The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

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  Civilization, Dachau, Foolish

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

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  Men, Hands, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.219, 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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• 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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• 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 frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

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  Boys, Night, Light

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.24, Vintage

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• There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

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  Joy, Taverns

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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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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• The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

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  Liars, Lying, Remember

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• When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

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  Air, Breathe, Ceremony

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• If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

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  Good Luck, Looks, Bunch

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• The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

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  Grief, Community, Sorrow

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

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  People, Difficulty, Charitable

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

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  All The Pretty Horses, Said, Misfortunes

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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• Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

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  Choices, Decision, Dumb

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no God and we are his prophets.

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  Religion, Prophet, There Is No God

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

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  Toss

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.52, Vintage

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• Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

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  Lying, Dying

  "The Road".

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• Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

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  Believe, Mean, Used

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been.

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  Thinking, Done, Benefits

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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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• By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

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

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• He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.

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  Boys, Men, Worry

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• My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

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  Inspirational, Morning, Sorry

  "No Country for Old Men". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

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  Dream, Dark, Fire

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