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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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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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Hell ain't half full.
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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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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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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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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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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 voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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