From Cormac McCarthy: “Our waking life’s desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”
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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.”
Quote of the day 03/24/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”
Quote of the day 03/23/24
From Cormac McCarthy: ‘Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
Quote of the day 03/22/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”
Quote of the day 03/21/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. WeContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/21/24”
Quote of the day 03/20/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.”
Quote of the day 03/19/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don’t deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things”
Quote of the day 03/18/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately beContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/18/24”
Quote of the day 03/17/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening andContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/17/24”
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