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Cormac McCarthy
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is ther...
“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”
“All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in...
“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag...
“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a for...
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things o...
“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers appr...
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible c...
“The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last inst...
