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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.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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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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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.
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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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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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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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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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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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