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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.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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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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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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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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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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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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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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Hell ain't half full.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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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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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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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
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There is no later. This is later.
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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