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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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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Contained
Evils
Daily
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