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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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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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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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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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If only my heart were stone.
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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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