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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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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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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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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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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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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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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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