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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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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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Charles McCarthy
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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.
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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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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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There is no greater monster than reason.
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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.
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There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
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On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.
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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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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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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
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There is no later. This is later.
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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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At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
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