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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
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
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There is no later. This is later.
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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
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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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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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