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“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

—Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

—Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.”

—Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you are doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.”

—Cormac McCarthy

“The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.”

—Cormac Mccarthy

Mr Ballard, he said. You are either going to have to find some other way to live or some other place in the world to do it in.

Cormac McCarthy - Child of God

Just get on a bus and go. What difference does it make? You’ve scuffled in this town for three years, hell, you could make it somewhere else.

I don’t have no friends somewhere else.

You don’t have any here.

Harrogate shook his head. Shit, he said. Bus? I ain’t never been on a goddamned bus.

All you do is get a ticket and get on.

Yeah yeah, sure, I’d get on the wrong damned bus or somethin.

There’s not any wrong bus. Not for you.

Cormac McCarthy — Suttree

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