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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
Cormac McCarthy
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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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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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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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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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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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