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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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Cormac McCarthy quote: "At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned"
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned Cormac McCarthy
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge Cormac McCarthy
And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them. Cormac McCarthy
After a while he pulled his hat down over his eyes and stood and placed his hands outstretched on the roof of the cab and rode in that manner. As if he were some personage bearing news for the countryside. As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains.... Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Where men can't live gods fare no better."
Where men can't live gods fare no better. Cormac McCarthy
... and when he saw the kid standing there looking looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world. Cormac McCarthy
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Cormac McCarthy
The skiff swung gently, drifting in the current. He undid his shirt to the waist and put one forearm to his eyes. He could hear the river talking softly beneath him, heavy old river with wrinkled face Cormac McCarthy
With the final onset of dark the iron cold locked down and the boy by now was shuddering violently. No moon rose beyond the murk and there was nowhere to go. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his..."
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. Cormac McCarthy
In these silent sunless galleries he'd come to feel that another went before him and each glade he entered seemed just quit by a figure who'd been sitting there and risen and gone on. Some doublegoer, some othersuttree eluded him in these woods and he feared that should that figure fail to rise and steal away and were he therefore to come to himself in this obscure wood he'd neither be mended nor made whole but rather set mindless to dodder drooling with his ghosty clone from sun to sun... Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts."
Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint..."
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Ever is a long time."
Ever is a long time. Cormac McCarthy

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