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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.


Cormac McCarthy

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TOMMY LEE JONES He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell ev...
JOYCE GIRAUD 'This is a family,' he told me. ... And he said, 'What do I have to do to prove I love my child?
JOSE SERRANO I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
CAMILA ALVES How could he not? ... Look at his head: He's got all that hair sticking out. My dad realized he had ...
DEAN YOUNG She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said; She said I am aweary, aweary, ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders an...
BECCA FITZPATRICK This is me trying, Perry,” he said softly, the anger being drained of his face. “This is me taki...
KARINA HALLE I can't believe that a man can walk in and confess to killing a child and walk back out on the stree...
JENNIFER WATTS Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN Your hair is like butterflies,” Sebastian said, giggling like a child.
“That’s nice,” F...
LAURA KREITZER I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lig...
HOLLY A. SMITH A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he...
STELLAN SKARSGARD Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my hea...
WILLIAM GIBSON Great job, wow. I think McCarthy was the star of the game. He did a tremendous job. He saved my bull...
OZZIE GUILLEN Once every Saturday i wash my clothes and barb my hair, years after, i realize i do same thing on sa...
SOTONYE ANGA Coconut oil mixed with olive oil is what I put on my body every day; I put rose hip oil on my face. ...
NIKKI REED If you haven't guessed it already," I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I swam my brains out.
MARK SPITZ [In the 911 call Grayston made around 3:40 a.m. that day, he said:] He was going to blow my brains o...
BRUCE PRESTON His hands moved over my back, frantic. His lips were everywhere, my jaw, my chin, the length of my n...
KERRY LONSDALE Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin...
LUZ MARTINEZ I am strong because love is my strength. I am beautiful because kindness is my beauty. I am a succes...
DEBASISH MRIDHA My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him.
“My every instinct is telling me to have ...
WENDY HIGGINS 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 The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my h...
CAMERON CONAWAY Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turne...
CLINTON PORTIS A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and pluc...
AMY LEE Music is my life. It is sacred.
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native l...
WALTER SCOTT Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.
S.L. WESTENDORF-COELHO Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.
S.L. COELHO 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always ...
CHRIS PRATT I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up ...
ELLA EYRE The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!
MEAGAN GOOD I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a chi...
GEORGE KONRAD He sucked some of the rain from my bottom lip, and I felt his mouth smile against mine. He swept my ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular com...
DREW CAREY You’ll have sweet dreams?” he asked quietly and sounding like he cared, a lot.

God b...
KRISTEN ASHLEY It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This is my natural hair color. I'm usually blonder but not that blond. That was a wig actually becau...
SOFIA VERGARA But Aladdin says nothing.
Instead, he lowers his face and softly kisses the side of my neck, hi...
JESSICA KHOURY If I wash my hair in the morning, then I usually air-dry it. In warmer weather, if I walk my dog, by...
JILLIAN HERVEY I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
EVA BRAUN I'm normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my bea...
POPPY DELEVINGNE Achilles was looking at me. “Your hair never quite lies flat, here.” He touched my head, just be...
MADELINE MILLER A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT I got a call from my supervisor. He said my job's been cut, and that was it. This work is all I know...
JASON KENNEDY Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep fo...
BIBLE My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering...
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering...
PRINCESS DIANA Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, f...
CASSANDRA CLARE I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant t...
JOHN FOWLES I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when ...
MELANIA TRUMP This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
ECKHART TOLLE I used to have pink hair," I told Seven.
"I used to have a real job," he answered.
"What h...
JODI PICOULT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want...
SOPHIE OKONEDO (Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...)
'How can the wind have a...
RUSSELL HOBAN And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And...
BIBLE I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? / Sa...
BIBLE I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying good-by to me.
EVA BRAUN He probably could have gotten out of going just because he has a newborn son. But he said, 'No, I ha...
PAUL MONTGOMERY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER This was so scary and upsetting for the both of us. That night, he was cursing with each piece of gl...
DIANE BLANCHARD The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde nat...
ANGELINA JOLIE After more of his sweet torture, I called, “Tate, honey?”
“Yeah, baby,” he answered. KRISTEN ASHLEY Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and qui...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead.
I will hold...
AMY LANE A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE When my son was really little, he assumed everyone was on TV because his uncle is on TV, my best fri...
VIRGINIA MADSEN His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like t...
VERONICA ROTH I'm sure Cindy has said it, but we know what it feels like to lose a child—to have a child killed ...
BILL MITCHELL I'm sure Cindy has said it, but we know what it feels like to lose a child—to have a child killed i...
BILL MITCHELL When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out...
LAURA MARANO I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishi...
ANNE SULLIVAN Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI where, instead of my hair falling out, I actually grew some hair.
JOHN CHAMBERS No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?"

...
ELNA BAKER This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
ED WESTWICK The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat abo...
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Is that why war endures?

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I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
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CORMAC MCCARTHY He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did.
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They sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's worse than that.
How's that?
Schoo...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
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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...
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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 ...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY 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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CORMAC MCCARTHY You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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constant in history is greed and foolishness and a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY The point is there ain't no point.
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I don't guess you would know it...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Carry the fire.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
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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