"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity. There was a time when the machine ate in moderation…and what it ate was replaced. Now the machine is eating faster…much faster than it can be replaced… The machine is eating it all."
"There is something I am here for, something I must do before i can go."
"A chaotic situation is always deliberately produced. Ask yourself who or what creature could benefit from such a situation"
"I would say for a great percentage of people, all they do is repeat their past. They really don't have a future at all."
"It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist."
"If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future."
"Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises, don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful…be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency."
👍2
“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
❤1
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
❤2
Cormac McCarthy (American author)
________
Born : July 20, 1933
Died : June 13, 2023 (aged 89)
________
American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity.
McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), a violent frontier tale, was a critical sensation, hailed as his masterpiece. McCarthy achieved popular fame with All the Pretty Horses (1992; film 2000), winner of the National Book Award.
McCarthy’s later works included No Country for Old Men (2005; film 2007), a bloody modern western that opens with a drug deal gone bad. In the postapocalyptic The Road (2006; film 2009), a father and son struggle to survive after a disaster (left unspecified) that has all but destroyed the United States. McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize for the critically acclaimed novel.
________
Born : July 20, 1933
Died : June 13, 2023 (aged 89)
________
American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American South and Southwest are noted for their dark violence, dense prose, and stylistic complexity.
McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), a violent frontier tale, was a critical sensation, hailed as his masterpiece. McCarthy achieved popular fame with All the Pretty Horses (1992; film 2000), winner of the National Book Award.
McCarthy’s later works included No Country for Old Men (2005; film 2007), a bloody modern western that opens with a drug deal gone bad. In the postapocalyptic The Road (2006; film 2009), a father and son struggle to survive after a disaster (left unspecified) that has all but destroyed the United States. McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize for the critically acclaimed novel.
❤2
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
❤1
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
❤2
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road
❤4
"Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing i'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily."
❤1