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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

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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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Lives
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Almighty

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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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