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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

“you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever” Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no God and we are his prophets.” 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

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“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

“In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Those whom life does not cure death will.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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existence life past memory time luck knowledge death God nature reality future forgetting dilemma remembrance leaving trouble mystery expectations scars

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No Country For Old Men (2)
Blood Meridian (1)
The Road (7)
All the Pretty Horses (2)