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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

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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Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.
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The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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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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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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 is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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