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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.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.
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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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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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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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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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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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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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