From Cormac McCarthy: “He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”
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Quote of the day 06/30/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wetContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/30/24”
Quote of the day 06/29/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of things. It can have no cause to favor certain enterprises over others. The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.”
Quote of the day 06/28/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”
Quote of the day 06/27/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Quote of the day 06/26/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/26/24”
Quote of the day 06/25/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the worldContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/25/24”
Quote of the day 03/27/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
Quote of the day 03/26/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Our waking life’s desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”
Quote of the day 03/25/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don’t want to be wrong about.”
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