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No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags luck, short

“You think when you wake up in the mornin’ yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin’ else.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags existence, life, time

“The point is there ain’t no point.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags philosophy, short

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don’t deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags failure, good, inspirational, people, perspective

“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags life, short, time

“You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it ain’t even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags happiness, self-improvement, truth

“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags metaphor, time, truth

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin’ out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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tags life, time, trouble

“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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“Things happen to you they happen. They don’t ask first. They don’t require your permission.”

-Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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“It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.”

-Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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tags choice, dreams, fiction

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