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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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