There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God — who knows all that can be known — seems powerless to change.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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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

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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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