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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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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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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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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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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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