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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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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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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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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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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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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.
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I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.
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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.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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