Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all."
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"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all."
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else."
Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men
"Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from."
Cormac McCarthy The Crossing
"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return."
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent."
Cormac McCarthy Suttree
"It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal."
Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited
"You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you."
Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men
"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
Cormac McCarthy
"I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home."
Cormac McCarthy
"There is no God and we are his prophets."
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
"But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have."
Cormac McCarthy
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”"
Cormac McCarthy The Road
"I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
Cormac McCarthy
"He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starless dark. Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground."
Cormac McCarthy
"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."
Cormac McCarthy
"He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man."
Cormac McCarthy
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