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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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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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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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The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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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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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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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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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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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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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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