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• The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

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  Boys, Night, Light

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

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• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

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  Fall, Blood, Space

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

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  Women, Honor, May

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.141, Pan Macmillan

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• People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

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  Life, Believe, People

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.142, Vintage

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• It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

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  People, Difficulty, Charitable

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

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  Love, God, Flames

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• The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

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  Heart, Reality, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

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  Horse, Men, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

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  Civilization, Dachau, Foolish

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

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  Book, Sixteen, Freethinker

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

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  Women, Machines, Suppression

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

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  Men, Identity, Needs

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.158, Vintage

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• You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

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  Promise, Pay, Too Much

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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• You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

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  Life, Truth, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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

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  Thinking, People, Desire

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

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  Eye, Space, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

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  Attitude, Dark, Wings

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no God and we are his prophets.

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  Religion, Prophet, There Is No God

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

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  Men, Existence, Knows

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

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  Pain, Pale, Loses

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

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  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.

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  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

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• By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.

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  Eye, Dark, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

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  Mean, Gone, World

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• There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

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  Morning, Men, Mind

  "No Country for Old Men Novel by Cormac McCarthy". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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