Cormac McCarthy Quotes - Page 5

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• What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

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  Want, Okay, Died

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.9, 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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• We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

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  Journey, Reality, Thinking

  "The Crossing". Book by Cormac McCarthy, 1994.

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• Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

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  Thinking, Forever, Want

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.10, Vintage

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• Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

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  Fate, Men, Chance

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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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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• The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

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  Writing, Ideas, Tragedy

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• There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

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  Women, Honor, May

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.141, Pan Macmillan

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• Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. It is some dark sister traveling in sorrow's clothing. Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.

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  Believe, Dark, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

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  Should Have, Should, Said

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.320, Vintage

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• Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

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  Horse, Men, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

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  Pain, Writing, Nuts

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• I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

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  Doe, Way, Opinion

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• You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

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  Life, Truth, Thinking

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

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• If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

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  Heart, Men, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

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  Men, Identity, Needs

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.158, Vintage

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• In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

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  War, Men, Vigor

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

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• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

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  Fall, Blood, Space

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• The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

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  Attitude, Dark, Wings

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

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  Book, Sixteen, Freethinker

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

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  Men, Existence, Knows

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

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  Promise, Pay, Too Much

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

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• The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

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  Women, Machines, Suppression

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

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  Eye, Space, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

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  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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