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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
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Charles McCarthy
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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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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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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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