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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
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Lose
Loses
Words
Pain
Always
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Pale

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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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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
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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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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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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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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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