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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.
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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
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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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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.
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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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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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