Cormac McCarthy Quotes about Country

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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

Cormac McCarthy

Country, People, Heartbeat

"The Road". Book by Cormac McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2006.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

Cormac McCarthy

Dream, Country, Lying

Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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.

Cormac McCarthy

Country, Eye, Forever

Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.24, Pan Macmillan