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There is no greater monster than reason.

Cormac McCarthy

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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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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
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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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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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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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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
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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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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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Hell ain't half full.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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