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• The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

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  Two, Understanding, Reason

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.230, Vintage

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• When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

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  Shooting

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• They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

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  Weed, Beach, Eye

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.187, Vintage

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• In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

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  Groups, Might, All The Pretty Horses

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in

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  Wise, Horse, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them

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  Lying, Men, Animal

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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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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• When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

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  Truth, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.123, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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