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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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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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