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Quotes from The Crossing — Cormac McCarthy

1933–2023 United States

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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

The Crossing (1994)

Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

The Crossing (1994)

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

The Crossing (1994)

Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.

The Crossing (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cormac McCarthy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.