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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
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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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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It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
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Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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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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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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Hell ain't half full.
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