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Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Dirt
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Time

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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
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Hell ain't half full.
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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
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If only my heart were stone.
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
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If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
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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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There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.
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It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
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He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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