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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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There is no greater monster than reason.
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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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The point is there ain't no point.
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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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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