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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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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Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
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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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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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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 passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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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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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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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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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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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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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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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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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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