Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

If you dont like to be laughed at dont fall on your ass, said Rawlins.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and kin and rout them from their house. A god insatiable whom no ceding could appease nor any measure of blood.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

A WARM WIND ON the mountain and the sky darkening, the clouds looping black underbellies until a huge ulcer folded out of the mass and a crack like the earth's core rending rattled panes from Winkle Hollow to Bay's Mountain. And the wind rising and gone colder until the trees bent as if borne forward on some violent acceleration of the earth's turning and then that too ceased and with a clatter and hiss out of the still air a plague of ice.

What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.

He saw men killed with guns and with knives and with ropes and he saw women fought over to the death whose value they themselves set at two dollars. He saw ships from the land of China

Coming downriver an antique schooner running under bare poles. Black hull, gold plimsoll. Passing under the bridge and down along the gray riverfront. Phantom of grace.

You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.

People prefer fate to chance.

Fate can be appeased, gods prayed to. But chance is just what it says.

Yeah, well. I know this is probably as good as it's goin to get and I'm a pretty grateful motherfucker.

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

You got your classical clockworks to tote up. The timelets in your seanet. Let everything drain. You may have to hang the hydrocephalics from the rafters overhead but that's okay. Dont worry about the floor. Everything will dry. The thing we're really talking about is the situation of the soul. Saturation, said the Kid.

That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.

she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo.

I know that you can make a good case that all of human sorrow is grounded in injustice. And that sorrow is what is left when rage is expended and found to be impotent.

Your only real safety would be in disappearing.

Dont become anxious. Try not to get worked up. A word to the wise. Bird in hand. Bird in hand? A stitch in time. We're not out of the woods. What the fuck. Where's it say that? Penny wise and pound foolish. Honesty is the best policy. Jesus. Enough

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