What did Cormac McCarthy mean by: In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die. Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA Copy
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Parenting, Responsibility, Trauma, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Independence, Intellectualism, Literature, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Knowledge, Perspective, Time, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Consequences, Struggle, Time, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Cruelty, Despair, Faith, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Betrayal, Cowardice, Self, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Goodness, Hope, Resilience, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it? Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cormac McCarthy, Ambiguity, Identity, Reflection, 0 Cormac McCarthy Novelist · USA
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up! Max Liebermann Painter · Germany
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
