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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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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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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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