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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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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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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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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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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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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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You have my whole heart. You always did.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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