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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
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Charles McCarthy
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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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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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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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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The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.
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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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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'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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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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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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