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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

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
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.
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Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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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 smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
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