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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.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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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.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
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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's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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