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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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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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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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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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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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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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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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I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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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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