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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

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
Breathe
Air
Upon
Left
Nothing
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Ceremonies
Ceremony

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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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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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