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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

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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First
Betrayals
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Coward
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Easily

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