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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.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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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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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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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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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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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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