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In the grueling light that passed for day... — Cormac McCarthy

You are either born a writer or you are not. — Cormac McCarthy

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have. — Cormac McCarthy

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

If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said. — Cormac McCarthy

He said if he is not the word of God God never spoke (4) — Cormac McCarthy

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin? — Cormac McCarthy

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

The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall — Cormac McCarthy

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you. — Cormac McCarthy

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. — Cormac McCarthy

The razorous shoulder blades sawing under the pale skin. — Cormac McCarthy

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings. — Cormac McCarthy

The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom. — Cormac McCarthy

Jabbo and Bungalow came in out of the weather in a bathless reek of cold wool and splo whiskey. — Cormac McCarthy

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. — Leslie Fiedler

Ever step you take is forever. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm double bred for death by fire. — Cormac McCarthy

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. — Cormac McCarthy

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. — Cormac McCarthy

This night, thy soul may be required of thee. — Cormac McCarthy

Glass flowers exploding. Slow trail of colors down the sky like stains dispersing in the sea, candescent polyps extinguished in the depths. — Cormac McCarthy

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. — Cormac McCarthy

The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The — Cormac McCarthy

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he? — Cormac McCarthy

He'd bivouacked on the north side of the town — Cormac McCarthy

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. — Cormac McCarthy

Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts. — Cormac McCarthy

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. — Cormac McCarthy

even found time to organize relief for war orphans. — Cormac O'Brien

Evolution cannot avoid bringing intelligent life ultimately to an awareness of one thing above all else and that one thing is futility. — Cormac McCarthy

This is a thirsty country. — Cormac McCarthy

The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin. — Cormac McCarthy

I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends. — Cormac McCarthy

He spoke into a blackness without depth or dimension. — Cormac McCarthy

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you. — Cormac McCarthy

If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither. — Cormac McCarthy

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. — Cormac McCarthy

Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he. — Cormac McCarthy

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

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it. — Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. — Tommy Lee Jones

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. — Cormac McCarthy

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat. — Cormac McCarthy

Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. Anyone you want me to beat up? — Carrie Vaughn

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it. — Cormac McCarthy

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you. — Cormac McCarthy

Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven. — Cormac McCarthy

Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right. — Cormac McCarthy

It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong. — Cormac McCarthy

The child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past. — Cormac McCarthy

White pussy is nothin but trouble. — Cormac McCarthy

Uneasy sleeper you will live to see the city of your birth pulled down to the last stone. — Cormac McCarthy

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English. — Cormac McCarthy

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

guess he said cattle could tell the difference between a flight of geese and a cat on fire. Maybe — Cormac McCarthy

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. — Cormac McCarthy

Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch. — Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing. — Cormac McCarthy

A malign star kept him. — Cormac McCarthy

There is no God and we are his prophets. — Cormac McCarthy

When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be, and you are happy again, then you will have given up. — Cormac McCarthy

We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said?
What did he say.
Said off a Dutchman. — Cormac McCarthy

The hardest lesson in the world:
Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. — Cormac McCarthy

From thinking about your sweet face between my legs. — Cormac McCarthy

Are you no afraid of God? I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him. You — Cormac McCarthy

How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell? — Cormac McCarthy

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies. — Cormac McCarthy

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

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is. — Cormac McCarthy

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. — Cormac McCarthy

Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf? — Carrie Vaughn

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand. — Cormac McCarthy

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing. — Cormac McCarthy

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again. — Cormac McCarthy

A dream inside a dream might not be a dream. — Cormac McCarthy

She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time. — Cormac McCarthy

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. — Cormac McCarthy

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy

And I said no ma'am I just aim to quit. I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be. — Cormac McCarthy

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. — Cormac McCarthy

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery. — Carrie Vaughn

There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here. — Cormac McCarthy

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around. — Cormac McCarthy

In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk. — Cormac McCarthy

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

I don't want to stay here overnight,' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. 'I want to find McLaggen and kill him. — J.K. Rowling

Toadvine was four steps above him and when he kicked him he caught him in the throat. — Cormac McCarthy

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it — Cormac McCarthy

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. — Cormac McCarthy

I was a Mormon. Then I converted to the church. Then I became I dont know what. Then I became me. — Cormac McCarthy

I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried. — Cormac McCarthy

Where man can't live gods fare no better. You'll see. It's better to be alone. — Cormac McCarthy

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

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. At — Cormac McCarthy

Okay. This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They dont give up. Okay. — Cormac McCarthy

God it set them yappin on the slope like dogs and he turns to us, the judge, with that smile of his, and he says: Gentlemen. That was all he said. — Cormac McCarthy

For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram. — Cormac McCarthy

That the boy was all that stood between him and death. — Cormac McCarthy