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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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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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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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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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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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