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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Worried
Scared
Winning
Money
Men
Love

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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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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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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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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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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.
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