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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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 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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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
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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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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)
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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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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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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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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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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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