Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy's new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction. "The Sunset Limited," though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul.

A Novel in Dramatic Form

The Sunset Limited

Jade Flynn

A quote from Alan Bennett perfectly sums up my thoughts "The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead." This is one book I'm never going to be finished with. A few times in your life you will stumble across a book that not only will you wholeheartedly understand but most importantly, you will find that it understands you. For me, this is it. More than any other piece of text that I've ever read. Sunset Limited felt like it was written for me personally. And that's one heck of a magical but scary thing. 

I'm going to share some of the 36 quotes I tabbed. 

White - It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal

Black - No. I didn't know what I was. But I thought I was in charge. I never knowed what that burden weighed till I put it down. That might of been the sweetest thing of all. To just hand over the keys

Black - It's just a train platform. Aint nothin else much you can say about it. But they might be one commuter waitin there on the edge of that platform that for him it;s somethin else. It might even be the edge of the world. The edge of the universe. He's startin at the end of all tomorrows and he's drawin a shade over every yesterday that ever was. So he's a different kind of commuter. He's worlds away from them everyday travelers

Black - The whole point of where this is goin - which you wanted to know - is that they aint no jews. No whites. Aint no niggers. People of color. Aint none of that. At the deep bottom of the mine where the gold is at there aint none of that. There's just the pure ore. That forever thing. That you dont think is there. That thing that helps keeps folks nailed down to the platform where the Sunset Limited comes through. Even when they think they might want to get aboard. The thing that makes it possible to ladle out benediction upon the heads of strangers instead of curses. It's all the same thing. And it aint but one thing. Just one

Black - The point dont change. The point is always the same point. It's what I said before and what I keep lookin for ways to say it again. The light is all around you, cept you dont see nothin but shadow. And the shadow is you. You the one makin it

The Sunset Limited A Novel in Dramatic Form

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