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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
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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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The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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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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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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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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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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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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