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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.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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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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Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
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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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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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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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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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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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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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