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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all. Cormac McCarthy
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. Cormac McCarthy
If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions. I don't believe they could offer the first reason why they should not elect to die as soon as possible. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the..."
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision..."
He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "That the boy was all that stood between him and death."
That the boy was all that stood between him and death. Cormac McCarthy
when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs..."
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not. Cormac McCarthy
The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have... Cormac McCarthy
When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world. A world burning on the shore of an unknowable void. A world construed out of blood and blood's alcahest and blood in its core and in its integument because it was nothing save blood had power to resonate against that void which threatened hourly to devour it. He wrapped himself in the blanket and watched her. When those eyes and the nation to which they stood witness were gone at last with their dignity back... Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away..."
He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind Cormac McCarthy
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone. Cormac McCarthy
The incinerate corpses shrunk to the size of a child and propped on the bare springs of the seats. Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries."
The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground."
There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground. Cormac McCarthy

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