Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?


Cormac McCarthy

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Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose su...
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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS
We did everything we were suppose to do but put the ball in the hole.
CARY THOMPSON
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
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We did everything we were suppose to do, except the ball didn't go through the rim.
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Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was fo...
RAYMOND CARVER
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TOMMY LEE JONES
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
PETER GREENAWAY
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling bac...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH
I want to hate that I need to love the internet. I suppose if you ignored the last two words to that...
BRYAN A ROBERTS
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
JOHN GREEN
Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
LEWIS CARROLL
Well, I suppose that consequently makes you my favorite nightmare.
KATJA MICHAEL
Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?
GROUCHO MARX
Lawyers I suppose were children once.
CHARLES LAMB
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
JANE BRYANT QUINN
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB
The reason they were 16 stories up is because that height is suppose to be a deterrent. If you get o...
WARDEN RAMON RUSTIN
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HARRY YOU
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HARRY YOU
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HARRY YOU
I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?
EOIN COLFER
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the...
ANONYMOUS
I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick w...
CHRIS HILL
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy r...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER
I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interes...
SHANE WARNE
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - reckl...
EMILY BROWNING
Statutes don't say how you are suppose to obtain this stuff.
JULIAN MORALES
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it i...
EUDORA WELTY
I suppose we could have lied about our debt like the Republicans did. Instead, we were honest and re...
LACHLAN MCINTOSH
I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you...
JOE MANTEGNA
We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the regio...
ETHAN COEN
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
YASUTANI ROSHI
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there
YASUTANI ROSHI
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
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Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a ...
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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a...
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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is...
EZRA POUND
One of the teachers said to one of our staff -- 'So I suppose you've stuffed all your religious lite...
KEN HAM
I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
NEIL GAIMAN
I suppose you could say that I majored in men and minored in psychology.
EILEEN FORD
Abomination is the word to fight or abuse your spouse,for if you do,it shows you are insane because,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend,...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only on...
BEN SWEETLAND
I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
DARCEY BUSSELL
One of the hardest things to do in life, is to get over where it is in life you think you're suppose...
BJ MORIN
Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.
DAVID WENHAM
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your min...
ATOM EGOYAN
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck ...
DOROTHY PARKER
And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as ...
BUDDHA
Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.
AVA GARDNER
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all suppose, ...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Ask yourself what you're doing differently than you did one year ago. If you're still doing the same...
PRICE PRITCHETT
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different...
WALT WHITMAN
But it's easier to say 'I love you',
than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.
ELVIS COSTELLO
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can*...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?
LESLIE PARRISH-BACH
You better be able to turn yourself off if you think you’re coming back into my house,” she said...
AMY KUIVALAINEN
I suppose they're like the I.R.S., ... You move once and they never send you your refund check.
PRESTON STURGES
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DOROTHY PARKER
You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER
I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the o...
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Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you...
NEIL GAIMAN
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps payin...
DAVID HARSANYI
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we c...
J. B. S. HALDANE
The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J.B.S. HALDANE
We’ve got to run,” I said. “I don’t suppose you mean away,” Grover murmured hopefully.
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Women need to know why you do certain things on the field and the theory behind it. Not just that yo...
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I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any o...
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Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you rei...
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Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill th...
SHANNON L. ALDER
No one missed what they suppose to receive, it's just the matter of time
KURT AHS
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
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I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather to...
RICHARD THOMPSON
My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...
JODI PICOULT
I suppose these things happen
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
He could start I suppose.
MARC CRAWFORD
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock tha...
AMANDA BURTON
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word:...
ALAN RICKMAN
No, you did that one last week.
CHARLES VENNAT
Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.
DUMBY: No, time to forget a...
OSCAR WILDE
I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush ...
JANETTE RALLISON
Do you have any idea how attractive you are?
Well, I'm better than roseanne Barr, I suppose.
LUCY ROBINSON
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back...
SONYA HARTNETT
You could hide things under a raincoat I suppose. I don't think we're going to ban raincoats.
ALEXANDER DOWNER
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

"I suppose one ...
JOHN FOWLES

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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass ...
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He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
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Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you...
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the othe...
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You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
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He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstain...
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The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could f...
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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and n...
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them th...
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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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...
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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Dope.
They sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's worse than that.
How's that?
Schoo...
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint ...
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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...
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Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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I dont know what happens to country.
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As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
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I dont believe knowing can save us. What is
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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
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whoever approaches his goal dances
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The point is there ain't no point.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curs...
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If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
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Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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If only my heart were stone.
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When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
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Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
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What's the bravest thing you ever did?
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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Carry the fire.
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I thin...
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