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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
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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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 things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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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.
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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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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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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