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If only my heart were stone.

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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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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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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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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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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