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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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The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
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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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It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.
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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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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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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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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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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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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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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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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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