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Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses Quotes: Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
         

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.


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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.



There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.



I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.



The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.



A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.



Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.



By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.



There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.



In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.






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Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.

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I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

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Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.



I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.



Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.



A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

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