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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
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. 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. Yessir.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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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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