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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

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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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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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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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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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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