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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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Charles McCarthy
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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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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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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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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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.
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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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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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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
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