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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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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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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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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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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
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Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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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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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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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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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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