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I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we’re still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we’re still here. Yeah. You don’t think that’s so great. It’s okay (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
People don’t pay attention. And then one day there’s an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
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 (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Every man’s death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he’d taken for talisman the simple human heart within him (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
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 (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it? (Cormac McCarthy Quotes)