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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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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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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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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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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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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
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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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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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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It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
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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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Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
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