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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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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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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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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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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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No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
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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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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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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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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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