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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
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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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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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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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