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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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