Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El juego del teléfono. Más vale ser parco. Lo que uno altera mediante el recuerdo tiene sin embargo una realidad, sea o no conocida.


Cormac McCarthy

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
Por un momento siento un destello de esperanza al pensar en el último verso del poema: «En alguna ...
JOHN GREEN
Recuerdo que en esos momentos pensé que aquel recorrido, aquel paseo hasta el altar, era el más di...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE
Como ve, todos tenemos en nuestro interior los elementos necesarios para producir fósforo. Es más,...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Soy un gato, un ser extremadamente sensible a los más sutiles cambios en la mente o el alma del mun...
SōSEKI NATSUME
Una de las mejores razones, si no hubiera otra, para la abolición del dinero, es precisamente que s...
EDWARD BELLAMY
Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla...
SáNDOR MáRAI
Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi...
ITALO CALVINO
Me encantaría creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiría todo el sufrimiento y la presión del mu...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Está empezando un nuevo día. Quizá sea un día como los demás, o quizá sea un día relevante qu...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
El hombre filosófico tiene el presentimiento de que bajo esta realidad en la que vivimos y somos ya...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi...
HERMANN HESSE
No se resista a dejarse invitar por ella si tiene más dinero. Si usted no es un gigoló, ella no va...
JOSEP-VICENT MARQUéS
Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un lib...
FRANZ KAFKA
Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
JAY ASHER
Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Si que­da­ba al­gu­na es­pe­ran­za, debía estar en los pro­les, por­que solo en esas masas...
GEORGE ORWELL
La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA
En ese momento me di cuenta de que el anochecer es solo una ilusión, porque el sol sigue estando pr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Pero yo creo en el amor verdadero, ¿sabes? No creo que todo el mundo se queda con los ojos o no enf...
JOHN GREEN
Para mí, el azul mediterráneo ya no es bonito. La transparencia de sus aguas, tan valorada por los...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
El amor verdadero no era precisamente uno de esos absolutos; pregunta en la cual la palabra <>...
ERNESTO SABATO
En la vida no todo es seguridad. Es ser capaces de recoger los pedazos después de que todo haya pas...
SHERRILYN KENYON
La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
La muerte tiene mucho más en común con el amor de lo que imagináis.
RICK RIORDAN
Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Di...
MICHEL FABER
En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE
En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz...
GEORGE ORWELL
Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Regalos insignificantes como un beso en un momento inesperado o un papel escrito a las apuradas. Pue...
JULIO CORTáZAR
Te quedas atrapado en ser algo, ser especial o guay o lo que sea, hasta un punto en que ni siquiera ...
JOHN GREEN
Porque la mejor parte de nuestra memoria está fuera de nosotros, en una brisa húmeda de lluvia, en...
MARCEL PROUST
Sólo mediante la información que poseemos, incorporada a nuestro organismo, sean los esquemas inna...
JOSé ANTONIO MARINA
Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
me habia quedado tambien casi por completo sin contactos con quienes anteriormente mehabia permitido...
THOMAS BERNHARD
Sentada enfrente de mis borradores, de repente me invadió el pánico como cuando un mago descubre q...
ZHOU WEIHUI
Pero cada uno de los hombres no es tan solo él mismo; es también un punto único, particularismo, ...
HERMANN HESSE
—Llegará un día en que todos nosotros estaremos muertos —dije—. Todos nosotros. Llegará un ...
JOHN GREEN
Si hay algo que no tolero es a esa gente que, cansada de golpear a las puertas del sistema sin logra...
RODRIGO FRESáN
Un punto en el mapa se convirtió en un lugar real, más real de lo que las personas que crearon ese...
JOHN GREEN
Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
¿ Por qué morían tan jóvenes?, se pregunta Stefan Zweig hablando de aquella generación y de su ...
WILLIAM OSPINA
El caballo español es como el vino, se aprecia por su color y al moverlo se disfruta cada uno de su...
JORGE EDUARDO CONTRERAS SALCEDO
Ha sido evidentemente por aquello que llamamos responsabilidad que el primate se convirtió en human...
FERNANDO SILVA SANTISTEBAN
Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
¿Sabes lo mas divertido? Lo que es para partirse de risa? Que no es verdad, que ni siquiera lo quie...
LEV GROSSMAN
¿Ha estado alguna vez enamorado? Horrible, ¿no? Te hace tan vulnerable. Te abre el pecho y el cora...
NEIL GAIMAN
Dos gruesos gerontes de las heladas tierras del norte sostienen sus cartas de vinos desde una de las...
MARTíN ZEKE OCHOA
A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
Todas las aves tomaron del fuegosu figura. El pensamiento también tiene su origen en el fuego. Las ...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Nunca, por nada en el mundo, podía uno desear que su dolor aumentara. Del dolor solo puede desearse...
GEORGE ORWELL
Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Nuestro mayor error en todo el mundo es nuestra insistencia en considerar cada nuevo acontecimiento ...
ANNE RICE
El dolor, cuando se instala en nuestro cuerpo, no quiere irse. Sobretodo si fue forjado en una relac...
LEO BATIC
¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e...
MARC LEVY
Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu...
AUDREY DRY
Sólo un recelo chiquito y fastidioso, como el grano de tierra que en un ojo se nos mete y nos hace ...
BENITO PéREZ GALDóS
El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios.
C.S. LEWIS
No os quepais en el cerebro lo que os puede caber en el bolsillo. Y al contrario, ¡no os quepais en...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY
¿Nunca les pasó estar con alguien muy hermoso? Ver a esa persona, escucharla hablar, seguir cada u...
CIELO LATINI
La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hace...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER
Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa...
PAULO COELHO
Cambiar una ortodoxia por otra no supone necesariamente un avance. el enemigo es la mentalidad de gr...
GEORGE ORWELL
Hay libros que tenemos a nuestro lado veinte años sin leerlos, libros de los que no nos alejamos, q...
ELIAS CANETTI
Puedo decirte que el final de una vida es la suma del amor que fue vivido en ella; y estar en su fin...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Pienso que cada uno es como un libro, con una sinopsis diferente y una portada distinta. Cada libro ...
AUDREY DRY
Recuerdo que una vez le dijo a la raza que leyeran los poemas en voz alta porque la voz era la semil...
TOMáS RIVERA
Y si eres tan lista como pareces, deberías saber que es una estupidez creer que la ciencia lo resue...
RACHEL CAINE
A veces se preguntaba si los instintos del ser humano habían cambiado en ese tiempo, y siempre lleg...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
La cosa pública es un desastre -voceaba, a la menor oportunidad, don Ramón- Cada uno mira demasiad...
MIGUEL DELIBES
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
—Sé que el Señor tiene un propósito para cada uno de nosotros, pero a veces no consigo entender...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
No puedo hablar de nuestra historia de amor, así que hablaré de matemáticas. No soy matemática, ...
JOHN GREEN
Cosas detestables

Cuando uno tiene prisa por salir, llega alguien de visita y se queda ha...
SEI SHōNAGON
Al ver a representantes de tantas nacionalidades en el camping, pensó que había sido un tonto al c...
J.K. ROWLING
En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cuando me besas, Gwendolyn Shepherd, es como si perdiera el contacto con el suelo. No tengo ni idea ...
KERSTIN GIER
Todo su cuerpo se estremeció, de la forma en que siempre lo hacía cuando la besaba. Nunca se aburr...
CASSANDRA CLARE
De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitif...
DAVID TRUEBA
El pasado siempre tiene importancia. No hay que olvidar las cosas que hiciste en el pasado, porque s...
CASSANDRA CLARE
El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en qu...
EDWARD BELLAMY
La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que...
MARIO BENEDETTI
siete de enero de 1986 me tragué otras cuantas pastillas mágicas del doctor Singh y cogí un avió...
PAUL AUSTER
Y en otros momentos me parece que aquella época está a sólo un palmo de distancia, casi al alcanc...
STEPHEN KING
De vez en cuando, uno debe liberar la mugre construida dentro de ellos para liberar sus emociones co...
SUZY KASSEM
- ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo?
Lo miré. No supe qué decir.
- Que la voy olvidando.
EDUARDO SACHERI
A veces oigo una música... O una canción... Una voz de mujer... Y allí encuentro lo que he sentid...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
Lo perdido tuvo color pero ahora es incoloro. Los latidos del gastado corazón invaden nuestra noche...
MARIO BENEDETTI
Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t...
ARTURO USLAR PIETRI

More Cormac McCarthy

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a r...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All other trades are contained in that of war.

Is that why war endures?

No. It...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He didn't say a lot so I tend to
remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint patter...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers']...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the othe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on e...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The man thought he seemed some sad and solitary changeling child announcing the arrival of a traveli...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible sile...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it int...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstain...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and n...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That al...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have my whole heart. You always did.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I k...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And s...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Dope.
They sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's worse than that.
How's that?
Schoo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. A...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count....
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just brin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and ba...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom menti...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It takes very little to govern good people.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I dont know what happens to country.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I dont believe knowing can save us. What is
constant in history is greed and foolishness and a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
whoever approaches his goal dances
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The point is there ain't no point.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, moun...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curs...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Where men can't live gods fare no better.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never wi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this mor...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting rea...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I read in the papers here a while back some teachers came across a survey that was sent out back in ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also whi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd pre...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep ove...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beg...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they'r...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them....
CORMAC MCCARTHY
That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the ...
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
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It wa...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she sho...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart be...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just tha...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
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
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