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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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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Life

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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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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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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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