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Cormac McCarthy _ The Road
Things will be better when everybody's gone.They will?Sure they will.Better for who?Everybody.
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All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin' up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didn't have a reason for it.Yessir.But there ain't but one reason.Yessir.You know what it is
Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing
Because he knows what perhaps you do not. That the past cannot be mended.
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Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing
The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments
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Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing
I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid."
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Cormac McCarthy _ No Country for Old Men
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.
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Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing
The task of the narrator is not an easy one, he said. He appears to be required to choose his tale from among the many that are possible. But of course that is not the case. The case is rather to make many of the one.
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Cormac McCarthy _ The Road
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain
It just sounds like superstition to me.And what is that?Superstition?Yes.Well. I guess it's when you believe in things that dont exist.Such as tomorrow? Or yesterday?Such as the dreams of somebody you dreamt. Yesterday was here and tomorrow's comin.
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Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain
The Sabbath had passed and in the gray Monday dawn a procession of schoolchildren dressed in blue uniforms all alike were being led along the gritty walkway. The woman had stepped from the curb to take them across at the intersection when she saw the man coming up the street all dark with blood bearing in his arms the dead body of a friend. She held up her hand and the children stopped and huddled with their books at their breasts. He passed. They could not take their eyes from him. The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the woman stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world.
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Cormac McCarthy _ Cities of the Plain
The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming.
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Cormac McCarthy _ All the Pretty Horses
They have a long life, dreams. I have dreams now which I had as a young girl. They have an odd durability for something not quite real.""Do you think they mean anything?"She looked surprised. "Oh yes," she said. "Dont you?""Well. I dont know. They're in your head."She smiled again. "I suppose I dont consider that to be the condemnation you do.
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