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Cormac McCarthy9 quotes
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy · 2005Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy · 1992Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985All 9 quotes →Adolph S. Ochs1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Joseph Wood Krutch1 quote
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman. — Joseph Wood Krutch · 1956