Cormac McCarthy

Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

306 quotes found

Writer · American · 1933–2023

American writer (1933–2023)

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“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”
— Cormac McCarthy
deep-love thought-provoking

“I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.”
— Cormac McCarthy
enemies

“Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. ...”
— Cormac McCarthy
love saying-goobye wife

“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”
— Cormac McCarthy
mortality

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was ...”
— Cormac McCarthy
desperate hopeful unusual

“Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
— Cormac McCarthy
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