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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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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
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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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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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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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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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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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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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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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