“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Variant: Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
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“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
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“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”
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“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
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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.
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
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“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
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“Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
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