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Cormac McCarthy quotes

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“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men
“There is no God and we are his prophets.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Men of god and men of war have strange affinities.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door.” Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men
“All other trades are contained in that of war.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“There is no greater monster than reason.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“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
“Those whom life does not cure death will.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there. ” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Here beyond men's judgements all covenants were brittle.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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