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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
Inside
Dream
Might

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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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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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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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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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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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He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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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.
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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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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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
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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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