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Cormac Mccarthy Inspirational Quotes (176)

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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said 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. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
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Ever step you take is forever.
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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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.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
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