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• I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

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  Lying, Moving, Thinking

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

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• We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.

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  Fire, Guy, Dying

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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  Use, Ifs

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• It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

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  People, Littles, Heard

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.64, Vintage

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• Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

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  Boys, Long, Long Time

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

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• I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

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  Perspective, Sometimes, Closeness

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.295, Vintage

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• What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

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  Dream, Night, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

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  Father, Book, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing.

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  Spring, Fall, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• Last words are only words.

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  Lasts, Last Words

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.498, Pan Macmillan

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• What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

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  Smoking, Soul, Flesh

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

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  War, Men, Trade

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

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• In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.

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  Dream, Dark, Sacrifice

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.27, Vintage

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• Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

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  Men, World, Vulnerable

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.141, 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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• If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

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  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

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  Thinking, Would Be, World

  "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen, www.wsj.com. November 13, 2009.

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• If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

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  Dream, Lying, Vision

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.662, Pan Macmillan

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• This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

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  Jobs, Children, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You
  cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.

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  Strong, Blow, Fire

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.46, Vintage

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• He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

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  Sleep, Dancing, Judging

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.349, Vintage

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• I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

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  Thinking, Race, Knees

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.218, Vintage

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• The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

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  Flower, Night, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.153, Vintage

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• I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.

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  Mother, Real, People

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• Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.

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  Morning, Light, Long

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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