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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
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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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.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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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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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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