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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Charles McCarthy
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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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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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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
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They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
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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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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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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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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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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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There is no later. This is later.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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