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The point is there ain't no point.

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
Point
Nihilism
Existentialism

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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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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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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Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?
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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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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.
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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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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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