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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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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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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.
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The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.
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Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
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The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.
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He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
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If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow
composed of the helpless and the impotent.
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Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
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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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This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up
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I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.
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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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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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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.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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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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Cormac McCarthy
Born:
July 20, 1933
Died:
June 13, 2023
(aged 89)
Bio:
Cormac McCarthy was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres.
Known for:
The Road (2006)
Blood Meridian (1985)
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
No Country for Old Men (2005)
Child of God (1973)
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