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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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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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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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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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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.
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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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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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