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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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