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You have to believe that there is good in the world. I'm goin to say that you have to believe that the work of your hands will bring it into your life. You may be wrong, but if you dont believe that then you will not have a life.
— Cormac McCarthy
The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.
— Cormac McCarthy
If something did not love you you would not be here.
— Cormac McCarthy
Death is not a lover.
— Cormac McCarthy
There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
— Cormac McCarthy
You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different.
— Cormac McCarthy
Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
— Cormac McCarthy
If you think that the dignity of your life cannot be cancelled with the stroke of a pen then I think you should think again.
— Cormac McCarthy
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
— Cormac McCarthy
The good book says that he that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, said
— Cormac McCarthy
Memories dim with age. There is no repository for our images. The loved ones who visit us in dreams are strangers. To even see aright is effort. We seek some witness but the world will not provide one. This is the third history. It is the history that each man makes alone out of what is left to him. Bits of wreckage. Some bones. The words of the dead. How make a world of this? How live in that world once made?
— Cormac McCarthy
Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me. White: Which is? Black: That you must love your brother or die.
— Cormac McCarthy