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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

Cormac McCarthy
Thinking, People, Desire

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Cormac McCarthy
Desire, May, Doe
Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.245, Pan Macmillan

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Cormac McCarthy
Desire, Waking Life, World
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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