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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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 wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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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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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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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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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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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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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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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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