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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

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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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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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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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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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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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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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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