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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
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Lying
Remember
Liar
Liars
Trouble

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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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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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