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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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The point is there ain't no point.
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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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