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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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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Men

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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
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There is no later. This is later.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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Hell ain't half full.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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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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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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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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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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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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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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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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