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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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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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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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