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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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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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