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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

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 passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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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 judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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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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To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
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Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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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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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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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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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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