# Quote — Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

> Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.

- Author: [Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md)
- Book: [Outer Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark/dont-flang-him

## More from this book

> Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles.
>
> Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

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> I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark/ive-seen-the.md)

> What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.

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