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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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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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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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