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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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 cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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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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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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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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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
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There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
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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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