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How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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