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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.
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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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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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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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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
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I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.
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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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