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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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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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