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Ever step you take is forever.

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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Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
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Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
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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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He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first 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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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
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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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