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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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Rhode Island
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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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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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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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.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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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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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
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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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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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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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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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