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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
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Fire
Small
Inspirational
Keep
Littles
Hidden
Little
Burning
However
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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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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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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