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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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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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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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The point is there ain't no point.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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Hell ain't half full.
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It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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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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