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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and the insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate Semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parable therein... Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of..."
He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death Cormac McCarthy
It took two days to cross that ashen scabland. The road beyond fell away on every side. It's snowing, the boy said. He looked at the sky. A single gray flake sifting down. He caught it in his hand and watched it expire there like the last host of christendom. Cormac McCarthy
he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly exaggerated. for the world was made each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a..."
What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. Cormac McCarthy
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground. Cormac McCarthy
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. Cormac McCarthy
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I..."
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone. Cormac McCarthy
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.[Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] Cormac McCarthy
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] Cormac McCarthy
In the night's in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor..."
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. Cormac McCarthy
The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning. Cormac McCarthy
Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands,... Cormac McCarthy

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