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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
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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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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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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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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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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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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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
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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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