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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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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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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.
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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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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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The point is there ain't no point.
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My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.
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They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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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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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
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What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)
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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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Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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