Quotes
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Cormac McCarthy

"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

Cormac McCarthy

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“I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.”

Source : Jules Feiffer (1977). “Hold Me!”, p.44, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.”
“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.”
“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.82, Verso
“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
“Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.”
“The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.”
“Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.”

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