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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed... Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "There is no God and we are his prophets."
There is no God and we are his prophets. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "A dream inside a dream might not be a dream."
A dream inside a dream might not be a dream. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody..."
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. Cormac McCarthy
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "whoever approaches his goal dances"
whoever approaches his goal dances Cormac McCarthy
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones. Cormac McCarthy
He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he’d guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "He may be dead; or he may be teaching English."
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one..."
Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Cormac McCarthy
the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because..."
I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart. Cormac McCarthy
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse..."
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him. Cormac McCarthy
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. Cormac McCarthy

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