He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time. Cormac McCarthy More Quotes by Cormac McCarthy More Quotes From Cormac McCarthy Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. Cormac McCarthy white men hands Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. Cormac McCarthy atheism atheist heart They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them. Cormac McCarthy light running blood The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it. Cormac McCarthy sleep men lying you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation. Cormac McCarthy aggravation done letting-go The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops. Cormac McCarthy dark wings attitude We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay. Cormac McCarthy guy dying fire If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts. Cormac McCarthy color heart men 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. Cormac McCarthy understanding reason two He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength. Cormac McCarthy all-the-pretty-horses misfortunes said A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. Cormac McCarthy heart running men You have my whole heart. You always did. Cormac McCarthy fidelity whole heart You are either born a writer or you are not. Cormac McCarthy born I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. Cormac McCarthy permit enemy I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. Cormac McCarthy stupid men thinking If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it. Cormac McCarthy things-to-do trouble ifs My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you. Cormac McCarthy sorry morning inspirational Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave. Cormac McCarthy want All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. Cormac McCarthy get-back doors trying Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love. Cormac McCarthy scared winning men
