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It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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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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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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