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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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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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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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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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