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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.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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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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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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Hell ain't half full.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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