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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.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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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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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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