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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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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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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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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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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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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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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.
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