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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
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)
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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.
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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
Ever step you take is forever.
— Cormac McCarthy
I'm double bred for death by fire.
— 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
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This is a thirsty country.
— Cormac McCarthy
Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.
— 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
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
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
I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends.
— Cormac McCarthy
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
Evolution cannot avoid bringing intelligent life ultimately to an awareness of one thing above all else and that one thing is futility.
— 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
He spoke into a blackness without depth or dimension.
— 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
Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
— Cormac McCarthy
The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons,coins,men.
— Cormac McCarthy
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
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.
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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
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
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
— 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
Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he.
— 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
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
— 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
He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
— Cormac McCarthy
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
— Cormac McCarthy
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
— Cormac McCarthy
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
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
— 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
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.
— Cormac McCarthy
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
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
— 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
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
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
— 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
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
— 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