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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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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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