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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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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
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