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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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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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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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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.
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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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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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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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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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