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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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Cormac McCarthy quote: "If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a..."
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand."
I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand. Cormac McCarthy
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. Cormac McCarthy
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of... Cormac McCarthy
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up. Cormac McCarthy
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again."
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again. Cormac McCarthy
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things Cormac McCarthy
He saw an idiot in a yard in a leather harness chained to a clothesline and it leaned and swayed drooling and looked out upon the alley with eyes that fed the most rudimentary brain and yet seemed possessed of news in the universe denied right forms, like perhaps the eyes of squid whose simian depths seem to harbor some horrible intelligence. All down past the hedges a gibbering and howling in a hoarse frog's voice, word perhaps of things known raw, unshaped by the constructions of a mind... Cormac McCarthy
People will tell you it was Vietnam brought this country to its knees. But I never believed that. It was already in bad shape. Vietnam was just the icin on the cake. We didn't have nothin to give to em to take over there. If we'd sent em without rifles I dont know as they'd of been all that much worse off. You can't go to war like that. You cant go to war without God. I dont know what is goin to happen when the next one comes. I surely dont. Cormac McCarthy
He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage. Cormac McCarthy
He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night..."
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. Cormac McCarthy
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different. Cormac McCarthy
Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference...I got set next to this woman...she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I aint even sure what she meant by it...She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she'll... Cormac McCarthy

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