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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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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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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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There is no greater monster than reason.
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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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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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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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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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