Cormac McCarthy Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

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  Differences, Doe, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

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  Loss, Past, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy”, p.85, Vintage

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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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• 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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• The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

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  Bird, Insult

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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• Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

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  Speak, Ends, Witness

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.154, Vintage

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• He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.

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  Heart, Air, Wind

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

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• All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

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  Doors, Trying, Get Back

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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