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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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