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Bad luck1 quote
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy · 2005Curation1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Dangerous world1 quote
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Human nature1 quote
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Hunting1 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 · 1956Man and the universe1 quote
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Man and war1 quote
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Media1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Newspapers1 quote
All the news that's fit to print. — Adolph S. Ochs · 1896Predator and prey1 quote
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985Scars1 quote
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy · 1992Stories1 quote
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The mysterious1 quote
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The universe1 quote
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985The world1 quote
The 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 · 1985War1 quote
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy · 1985