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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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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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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend
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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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Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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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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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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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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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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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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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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