What did Cormac McCarthy mean by: He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat. Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA Copy
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Forgotten, Lies, Truth, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Memory, Perception, Reality, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Dream, Reality, Ruthlessness, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Existence, God, Unity, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Impermanence, Mortality, Suffering, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Despair, Misery, Uncertainty, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Isolation, Madness, Society, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Clarity, Distance, Perspective, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France