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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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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.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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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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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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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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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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