I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
("All the Pretty Horses")
More Quotes from Cormac McCarthy:
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.Cormac McCarthy
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
Cormac McCarthy
Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven.
Cormac McCarthy
The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
Cormac McCarthy
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
Cormac McCarthy
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