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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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Cormac McCarthy quote: "They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was..."
They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good. Cormac McCarthy
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said...."
They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers. Cormac McCarthy
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them. Cormac McCarthy
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time. Cormac McCarthy
Snowflake. You catch the snowflake but when you look in your hand you don’t have it no more. Maybe you see this dechado. But before you see it it is gone. If you want to see it you have to see it on its own ground. If you catch it you lose it. And where it goes there is no coming back from. Not even God can bring it back. Cormac McCarthy
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. Cormac McCarthy
If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted. . . .Hell, I dont know what I want. Never did. . . . When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I tink you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain. Cormac McCarthy
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turnings will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever..."
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. Cormac McCarthy
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come bac? (210) Cormac McCarthy
There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Men of God and men of war have strange affinities."
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. Cormac McCarthy
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. Cormac McCarthy
What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle. Cormac McCarthy

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