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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.
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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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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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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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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There is no later. This is later.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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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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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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