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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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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.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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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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The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
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