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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.
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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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
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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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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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Where men can't live gods fare no better.
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It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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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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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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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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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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