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• Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

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  Dream, Giving Up, World

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• And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

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  Beach, Children, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.

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  Believe, Dark, Vanity

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• What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)

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  Horse, Men, Blood

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• The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

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  Names, Desert, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.387, Vintage

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• I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

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  Believe, Heart, Looks

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• What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

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  Dream, Children, Darkness

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

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  Honesty, Wells

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.128, Vintage

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• I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

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  House, Citizens, Respectable

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• Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.

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  Children, Heart, Destiny

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

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  Death, Believe, Destiny

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.379, Vintage

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• Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

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  Stars, Lying, Fire

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.185, Vintage

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• You have my whole heart. You always did.

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  Heart, Fidelity, Whole

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

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  Dream, Country, Lying

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

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• Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.

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  Dream, Men, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

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  Pain, Grief, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

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  Boys, Littles, Goodness

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.236, Vintage

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• I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

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  Enemy, Permit

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.253, Vintage

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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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• In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

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  Eye, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage

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• They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

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  Death, Night, Hug

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.

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  Life, People, Stories

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.387, Vintage

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• When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

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  Fire, Hair, Different

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.185, Vintage

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• The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

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  Memories, Night, Air

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

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  Path, Common, Easy

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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