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Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
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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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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.
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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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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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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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