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“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”

Cormac McCarthy

The judge
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? The fire?"
Yes it is."
Where is it? I don't know where it is."
Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“If only my heart were stone.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses (1992)
Context: He thought he'd be an object of some curiosity but the people he saw only nodded gravely to him and passed on. He carried the bucket back into the store and went down the street to where there was a small cafe and he entered and sat at one of the three small wooden tables. The floor of the cafe was packed mud newly swept and he was the only customer. He stood the rifle against the wall and ordered huevos revueltos and a cup of chocolate and he sat and waited for it to come and then he ate very slowly. The food was rich to his taste and the chocolate was made with canela and he drank it and ordered another and folded a tortilla and ate and watched the horses standing in the square across the street and watched the girls. They'd hung the gazebo with crepe and it looked like a festooned brush-pile. The proprietor showed him great courtesy and brought him fresh tortillas hot from the comal and told him that there was to be a wedding and that it would be a pity if it rained. He inquired where he might be from and showed surprise he'd come so far. 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.

“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“The point is there ain't no point.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”

Cormac McCarthy