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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
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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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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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There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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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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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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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
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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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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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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
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