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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
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The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
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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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