From Cormac McCarthy: “They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
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Quote of the day 03/15/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
Quote of the day 03/14/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it. You understand what I’m sayin?”
Quote of the day 03/13/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
Quote of the day 03/12/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The point is there ain’t no point.”
Quote of the day 03/11/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Quote of the day 03/09/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Quote of the day 03/04/24
From James Joyce: “The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Quote of the day 03/03/24
From James Joyce: “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
Quote of the day 03/02/24
From James Joyce: “Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”