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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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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
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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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