Cormac McCarthy Short Quotes

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... ingratitude is more common than you might think.

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If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.

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Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.

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You can't be all Mexican. It's like being all mongrel.

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I could have been somebody in this world wasn't for him.

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... words were said that could not be put right again...

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I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.

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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

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This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one?

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Nothing wounded goes uphill, he said. It just don't happen.

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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

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... death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.

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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

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Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

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How many is there, John?.
Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

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This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

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People say that the coyote is a witch. Often the witch is a coyote.

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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.

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He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

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... hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.

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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

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Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

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There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.

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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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