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In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.
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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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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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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 world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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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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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
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Hell ain't half full.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.
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If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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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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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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There is no later. This is later.
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War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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