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Cormac Mccarthy Inspirational Quotes (176)

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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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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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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
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