“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

Cormac McCarthy

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“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”


“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?''Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?''Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.”


“What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”


“If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted. . . .Hell, I dont know what I want. Never did. . . . When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I tink you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.”


“What would you do if I died?If you died I would want to die too.So you could be with me?Yes. So I could be with you.Okay.”


“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”