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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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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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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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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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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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