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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.
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People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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 trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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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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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
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