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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
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Charles McCarthy
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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.
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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 is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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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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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 trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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