He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way to live. It doesn't allow for special cases. A coin toss perhaps. In this case to small purpose. Most people don't believe that there can be such a person. You see what a problem that must be for them. How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of. Do you understand? When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That there could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world. Do you see?

Yes, she said sobbing. I do. I truly do.

Good, he said. That's good. Then he shot her.


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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, n...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Carry the fire.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scienti...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All The Pretty Horses
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER
In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY
They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY