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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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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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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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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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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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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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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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