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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
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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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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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There is no later. This is later.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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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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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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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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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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