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Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
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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 people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
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This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
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When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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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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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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I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.
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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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This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
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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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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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