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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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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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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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Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.
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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 wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
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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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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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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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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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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
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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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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
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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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