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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes

American Writer July 20, 1933

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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Life is a memory, and then it is nothing."
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing. Cormac McCarthy
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel..."
The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written. Cormac McCarthy
It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even..."
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose. Cormac McCarthy
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what..."
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. Cormac McCarthy
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience..."
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? Cormac McCarthy
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left. Cormac McCarthy
In the morning they came up out of the ravine and took to the road again. He'd carved the boy a flute from a piece of roadside cane and he took it from his coat and gave it to him. The boy took it wordlessly. After a while he fell back and after a while the man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin. The man turned and looked back at him. He was lost in concentration. The man thought he... Cormac McCarthy
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one. Cormac McCarthy
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower. Cormac McCarthy

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