"Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be."

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Cormac McCarthy

#Country Quotes #Eye Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Time is a river without banks.”

Source : Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall, Barbara Harshav (2004). “Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative”, p.1004, Stanford University Press
“In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too”
“Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.”
“An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.”
“We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
“I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study.”
“It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.”
“It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.”

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