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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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Charles McCarthy
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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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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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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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
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The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.
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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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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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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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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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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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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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