It takes very little to govern good people.
– Cormac McCarthy
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- People 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
- Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away. – Dave Matthes
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. – Cormac McCarthy
- War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. – Cormac McCarthy
- If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay. – Cormac McCarthy
- What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. – Cormac McCarthy
- And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. – Cormac McCarthy
- Here beyond men’s judgments all covenants were brittle. – Cormac McCarthy
- There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. – Cormac McCarthy
- All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. – Cormac McCarthy
- …the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation. – Cormac McCarthy
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- I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. – Cormac McCarthy
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- Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change. – Cormac McCarthy
- A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what. – Cormac McCarthy
- What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. – Cormac McCarthy
- Dope.They sell that shit to schoolkids.It’s worse than that.How’s that?Schoolkids buy it. – Cormac McCarthy
- By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. – Cormac McCarthy
- Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. – Cormac McCarthy
- They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship’s wake. – Cormac McCarthy
- Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. – Cormac McCarthy
- Don’t take in no strangers while I’m gone.She sighed deeply. They ain’t a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said. – Cormac McCarthy
- Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed. – Cormac McCarthy
- His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep. – Cormac McCarthy
- They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey. – Cormac McCarthy
- On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. – Cormac McCarthy
- He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised. – Cormac McCarthy
- If you pursue this road that you’ve embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise – Cormac McCarthy
- Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. – Cormac McCarthy
- Maybe it’s like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him. – Cormac McCarthy
- Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we’re not dying.Okay. – Cormac McCarthy
- You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me…. You’ll be all right. – Cormac McCarthy
- His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it. – Cormac McCarthy
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. – Cormac McCarthy
- How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don’t guess you would know it. You’d just be it. – Cormac McCarthy
- They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place. – Cormac McCarthy
- Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore. – Cormac McCarthy
- Where men can’t live gods fare no better. – Cormac McCarthy
- The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element. – Cormac McCarthy