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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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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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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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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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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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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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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 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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All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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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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Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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