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Hell ain't half full.

Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
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The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
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There is no later. This is later.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.
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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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I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
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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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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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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
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He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
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Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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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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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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