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There is no God and we are his prophets.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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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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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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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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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.
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Hell ain't half full.
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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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But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
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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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