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... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
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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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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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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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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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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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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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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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
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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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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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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
Cormac McCarthy
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
Cormac McCarthy
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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